An international research team co-led by the University of Oulu has successfully dated key fossil sites in Central Anatolia, Türkiye, to between 7 and 10 million years ago using a new Argon-Argon ...

Turkish excavations reveal 8-meter-long street structure and systematic passages providing settlement access, showing sophisticated urban planning in pre-pottery Neolithic period. Turkish ...

The archaeologic site of Kayalipinar is on the bank of the Kizilirmak River, near Yukarı Ekecik village, in the Yildizeli area of Sivas province. A survey in 1997 by T. Ökse recorded Early Bronze, ...

The Konya Basin in Central Anatolia, Turkey, is showing evidence of rapid ground sinking, while being part of a larger region that has been elevating for millions of years. New satellite and ground ...

KAYSERI, TURKEY—Hurriyet Daily News reports that a team of researchers led by Fikri Kulakoğlu of Ankara University uncovered more than a dozen 4,300-year-old figurines thought to depict gods and ...

Researchers report evidence for the early spread of agriculture into central Anatolia. The means by which agriculture expanded beyond the Fertile Crescent of Southwest Asia, where agriculture ...

Scientists have long wondered how volcanoes formed in central Anatolia despite being far from tectonic plate borders—now they've found evidence of a hot plume of magma flowing from East Africa. Riders ...