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Human sacrifices found in a Bronze Age tomb in Turkey were mostly teenage girlsArchaeologists are unsure why unrelated teenagers were buried in an elaborate Bronze Age tomb but think their age may be a ...
DNA study of Bronze Age tombs in Turkey reveals teenage human sacrifices, challenging ideas about early Mesopotamian society.
The teenagers’ skeletons were unearthed at the cemetery of Basur Höyük where researchers previously uncovered evidence of “grand funerary rituals” and the burial of “spectacular” quantities of ...
Perched on the edge of a river near the city of Siirt, Türkiye, is an archaeological site that offers a chance to completely ...
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 ...
Aerial view of the Bronze Age site of Basur Höyük. Credit: Basur Höyük Excavation Project At the threshold of written history, when the first civilizations began to consolidate in Mesopotamia and ...
Başur Höyük is a Bronze Age community dated to between 3100 BC and 2800 BC. Previous studies have hinted that this period corresponded to the rise of kingship in ancient Mesopotamia as part of ...
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