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 ...

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 ...

High atop the Anatolian Plain near the border with Syria a rare archaeological site may be revealing new clues to the origins of human farming. Klaus Schmidt, a German archaeologist who has been ...

While the rooms that populate these debates are perhaps less showy than the Anatolian plain, they are carefully art-directed, giving the sense of how these characters have built up their personalities ...

It is through their eyes and by capturing with their cameras that EurasiaNet.org can present unique stories of people, events, and humanity in the South Caucasus, throughout Central Asia, across the ...

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 ...

SARASOTA -- In 1961, archaeologists unearthed the remains of an ancient Neolithic city known as Çatal Hüyük on the Anatolian plain in central Turkey. Excavations uncovered evidence of elaborate ...

From Co Clare's cliffs to the Anatolian plain; from medieval battlements to Ottoman minarets; from the slate grey Atlantic to the Golden Horn; from armoured cars on deserted streets to ...