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

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

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

At the threshold of written history, when the first civilizations began to consolidate in Mesopotamia and Anatolia, the world ...

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 ...

A new archaeological study has revealed that teenagers, mostly girls, were the primary human sacrifices in elaborate Bronze Age burial rituals, raising questions about long-held beliefs regarding ...

Modern historiography has tended to assume that violence was the primary driving force behind the formation of the first ...

Archaeologists have a discovered a strange abundance of teenagers’ remains at “one of the richest” ancient Mesopotamian grave ...

This cradle is the land between two rivers, Mesopotamia—the starting point for the agricultural villages that would grow in size and complexity until some 5,000 years ago. These villages became cities ...