Excavations at the Körtiktepe settlement in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır’s Bismil district (Turkey) have revealed various types of weaving designs.
There’s another downside to repatriations like the one Penn has announced. They play into the notion that the countries in today’s U.N. have a unique claim to every object ever made within their modern borders, as part of their trademark “cultural heritage.”
Tutankhamun’s mysterious death as a teenager may finally have been explained. And the condition that cut short his life may also have triggered the earliest monotheistic religion, suggests a new review of his family history.
Souren Melikian describes some of the factors that are making UNESCO’s Convention for the protection of cultural property increasingly effective across most Western countries.
Richly woven textiles, gorgeous gold-leaf covered wooden horse tack ornaments and other rare organic artifacts, normally not preserved in other areas of the Ancient Near East and Central Asia, have been excavated in burial mounds, or “kurgans”.
The best-preserved stadium in the Anatolian region has been found at the ancient city of Magnesia. Other finds also show that people living in the city were very civilized.
Ertugrul Gunay, the Turkish culture and tourism minister, said the 24 pieces of jewelry are among thousands of historical artifacts returned to the country over the past two decades, according to the state-run Anadolu news agency.
Session proposals are invited for the 23rd Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference which will take place on 5th-6th April 2013 at King's College London
The Stone Age statuettes, which are estimated to be between 9,000 and 9,500 years old, may have been charms to help ensure successful hunting, according to archaeologists who announced the discovery today in an e-mailed release.
Discovered in the Alken Enge wetlands near Lake Mossø in East Jutland, Denmark, the skeletal remains tell the story of an entire army's apparent sacrifice.
TranslateLost one after another the most important architectural buildings of the historic center of Thessaloniki with the historical memory of the cityexcerpt
he hands appear to be the first physical evidence of a practice attested to in ancient Egyptian writing and art, in which a soldier would present the cut-off right hand of an enemy in exchange for gold.