For as long as anyone can remember, residents in Gaziantep have been harvesting wild pistachios to make a unique, nutty brew ...

The Gate to Hell at the ruins of the ancient Greek city of Hierapolis in western Turkey has opened to regular visitors for ...

In the foothills of the beautiful Taurus Mountains of southwestern Turkey lies a World Heritage site called Pamukkale-Hieropolis. Its thermal spring waters have drawn people since ancient times and ...

Last winter, a local farmer in southern Turkey stumbled upon a large stone half-submerged in an irrigation canal with mysterious inscriptions. The stone revealed the story of an ancient, lost ...

An ancient city in Turkey, which dates back to the prehistoric Iron Age Urartian Kingdom in the ninth century BC, has been discovered thanks to treasure hunters. Turkish archaeologist and researcher, ...

Archaeologists have found an ancient tomb carved into bedrock beneath an unassuming courtyard in Turkey. Discovered in the ...

In the soft earth beneath the threshold of a Bronze Age home, a disc of bread lay waiting. It had been torn, charred, and buried—sealed into the foundation of a house that once stood in what is now ...

English is one member of a large family, the Indo-European languages, that are now spoken by a huge swath of the world. But where they originated is the subject of controversy, with experts undecided ...

Ancestral Pueblo people began making turkey feather blankets about 1,800 years ago, coinciding with the transition to settled ...

The mega structures of the ancient world are famously awe-inspiring. They showcase the ingenuity, ambition and ...