The Bahra 1 site, where the statues were found, has been a focal point for research on ancient Stone Age societies ... which spread in its heyday from Mesopotamia to Anatolia and the Arabian ...

Lapis lazuli, valued like gold, has a rich 6,000-year history. Its primary source is Afghanistan's Badakhshan province, where ...

The site is located in southeastern Turkey, a place that was once part of Upper Mesopotamia, and was built at a time when people in the area lived as hunter-gatherers. T-shaped stone pillars that ...