Intriguing evidence of early urbanization is now emerging at one of the largest and most significant digs in the history of archaeology, a 26-acre site in Turkey's Anatolian plain known as ...

a 9,000-year-old Neolithic settlement on the Anatolian plain. Institute archaeologists have documented the transition from hunting and gathering to farming, a breakthrough that Logan Kistler ...

Çatal Hüyük - The First City? On the wide, flat South Anatolian Plain, near the Turkish city of Konya, there is a broad mound, about 80 metres high. Excavations in the 1960s revealed its ...

The East Anatolian fault, site of a deadly February 2023 earthquake, formed 5 million years ago thanks to the squeeze of the Eurasian and Arabian plates, new research finds. The creation of the ...