Neolithic

Free workshops will be organized for children in the Çatalhöyük Neolithic settlement between June 19 and July 26.

The Shell Çatalhöyük Archaeology Summer Workshop is organized by Shell Turkey, which has contributed to the excavations, carried out by Stanford University, at the UNESCO world heritage site since 1995. 

The home of the late German professor Klaus Schmidt, who shed light on the history of humanity with his findings at Göbeklitepe, known as the "zero point of history," has been burgled. 

Many objects were reportedly stolen from the house in the Kadıoğlu neighborhood of the southeastern province of Şanlıurfa's Eyyübiye district. 

The ancient site of Göbeklitepe located in the southeastern province of Şanlıurfa is getting ready to be added to the UNESCO World Heritage List with a new roof protection. 

The ancient site of Göbeklitepe located in the southeastern province of Şanlıurfa is getting ready to be added to the UNESCO World Heritage List with a new roof protection. 

Ancient symbols carved into stone at an archaeological site in Turkey tell the story of a devastating comet impact that triggered a mini ice age more than 13,000 years ago, scientists believe.
Evidence from the carvings, made on a pillar known as the Vulture Stone, suggests that a swarm of comet fragments hit the Earth in around 11000 BC.

For decades, beer partisans have argued that fermented rather than baked grain led humans to begin sowing the fields, settling down, and abandoning their hunter-gatherer ways. I have found none of their arguments persuasive; there just wasn’t a smoking gun to support it one way or another.

An excavation team that has been working at Çatalhöyük in Central Anatolia for decades has come the closest yet to solving some of the mysteries surrounding the Neolithic site's earliest structures, according to the head of the dig.

The Şanlıurfa Museum Complex, which opened in the southeastern province of Şanlıurfa one-and-half-years-ago and became Turkey's largest museum, takes history aficionados on a journey to the history of humanity dating back to the ancient times.

The complex, which is located on an area of 200,000 square meters, is next to the city's famous tourist attraction Balıklıgöl. 

The ancient site of Göbeklitepe, one of the world's most important archaeological sites boasting a history of 12,000 years, is set to soon graduate from UNESCO's tentative list of World Heritage Sites to the permanent list. 

Archaeological excavations in the Central Anatolian province of Konya's Çatalhöyük, headed by Professor Ian Hadder, have unearthed a well-preserved female figurine from the Neolithic era of 8,000-8,500 B.C. 

The figurine has all parts of its body intact and has been defined as "unique."