The teenagers’ skeletons were unearthed at the cemetery of Basur Höyük where researchers previously uncovered evidence of ...

A clay tablet, almost 4,000 years old, reveals how a Mesopotamian man named Nanni took matters into his own hands when he ...

This cradle is the land between two rivers, Mesopotamia—the starting point for the agricultural villages that would grow in ...

A roughly 4,800-year-old royal Mesopotamian cemetery in eastern Turkey appears to complicate existing theories about how some ...

Researchers previously assumed that some of the graves at the site were royal burials. A new study presents a different ...

DNA study of Bronze Age tombs in Turkey reveals teenage human sacrifices, challenging ideas about early Mesopotamian society.

At the threshold of written history, when the first civilizations began to consolidate in Mesopotamia and Anatolia, the world ...

Almost 4,000 years ago, a Mesopotamian man named Nanni was so disappointed with the copper he bought from a trader named ...

This cradle is the land between two rivers, Mesopotamia—the starting point for the agricultural villages that would grow in size and complexity until some 5,000 years ago. These villages became cities ...

Credit: Photograph by permission of the Başur Höyük Research Project; Cambridge Archaeological Journal 2025 Five millennia ...