In the shadow of Napoleon’s invasion of Russia, hundreds of thousands died of the plague in Istanbul. The epidemic has been completely overlooked
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Paleolithic presence in Ayvalık may point to the migration of early humans from Anatolia to mainland Europe
Fluctuations in viticulture and oleiculture traditions in Bronze and Iron Age Levant cultures: a new study published in PLoS ONE
When ideas travel further than people: how the Neolithic way of life spread from the Fertile Crescent; a new study published in the journal Science
Primate evolution comes into sharper focus – new radioisotopic dating, Argon-Argon (⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar), marks a breakthrough in the study of volcanic deposits
Population surveillance, diverse religions and tolerance in the Ottoman Empire 200 years ago; a study in Comparative Studies in Society and History
Cuneiforms: new digital tool for Researchers, thanks to the Thesaurus Linguarum Hethaeorum Digitalis (TLHdig) which was launched on the Hethitologie-Portal Mainz platform (HPM)
Cleopatra’s sister remains missing: the remains found at the Octagon in the ruins of Ephesos (Turkey) in 1929 cannot be the ones of Arsinoë IV
During the Late Neolithic, in the Fertile Crescent, a complex culinary tradition that included the baking of large loaves of bread and focaccia was developed
An extensive, freely accessible database featuring 483 known Middle and Late Bronze Age settlement sites of the Luwian region, in the west of Turkey
