Göbeklitepe, a site in the southeastern province of Şanlıurfa hailed as the world’s oldest temple, is getting ready to host a record number of tourists next year, after President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Dec. 25 declared 2019 the “Year of Göbeklitepe....

An ancient theater in the Aegean city of İzmir, built when its name was Smyrna during the Hellenistic period and buried under soil 1,500 years ago, is being unearthed in excavations. 

Cambridge Assyriology students led by Dr Martin Worthington have made the world's first film in Babylonian. Based on a 2,700-year-old poem, 'The Poor Man of Nippur' is a violent and comic story of revenge.

The fragments of the “Meanad” mosaic, which was smuggled from the ancient city of Zeugma in the southeastern province of Gaziantep and is known as the Gypsy Girl mosaic, was returned to Turkey last week. The mosaic, depicting one of daughters of the ...

Historic documents unearthed during excavations in Anatolia’s oldest international trade center, Assyrian Trade colony Kaniş-Karum, have revealed that women made commercial deals and impressed their seal 4,000 years ago.

A 1,700-year-old underground city in the Central Anatolian province of Yozgat has come to the surface after the houses closing its entrance were expropriated and knocked down.