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

Archaeologists are unsure why unrelated teenagers were buried in an elaborate Bronze Age tomb but think their age may be a ...

Opinion - When I was a student at Lukanga Adventist Secondary School, I was among the few privileged to deliver the grand ...

A Bronze Age tomb has revealed a haunting ritual centered on the sacrifice of teenage girls.

Priests, princes, or plenty? The only way to answer these questions is to dig deep, and this is what archaeologists have done for hundreds of years in the tall mounds of built-up mudbrick that are the ...

Perched on the edge of a river near the city of Siirt, Türkiye, is an archaeological site that offers a chance to completely ...

Wengrow and colleagues have studied a series of skeletons found at the archaeological site of Başur Höyük on the Upper Tigris River in southeastern Turkey. Once part of ancient Mesopotamia ...

rivaled only by the Tigris, Euphrates, and Indus Rivers for significance to the earliest human civilizations. As much as we focus on the Nile for its role in Ancient Egyptian history, there are still ...

Tear bottles, believed to be a pre-Christian custom, were used to collect tears, particularly by women who lost their ...