Exploration goes beyond the pursuit of knowledge
The late afternoon light often falls gently across the slopes of Izmir’s Torbalı district, but this season it illuminated something far rarer: the finely carved…
Long before modern pilgrims and popes found their way to its ancient streets, İznik—known worldwide by its classical name, Nicaea—was a meeting point of religions…
Early morning light filtered across the dusty trench as archaeologists brushed away the final layer of soil. What emerged was a face—calm, youthful, and carved…
The carved face should have been terrifying. Instead, it was quietly smiling. During the latest excavations in Amasra’s ancient city of Amastris, archaeologists uncovered a…
The waters off Alexandria’s ancient Portus Magnus have yielded an extraordinary surprise: the remarkably preserved hull of a luxurious thalamagos, a pleasure-and-ritual barge once used…
Morning light was spilling across the ruins of ancient Ephesus when archaeologists reached a layer of collapsed masonry inside the vast Harbor Bath. Among scattered…
The figures were almost invisible—faded shapes clinging to a cliff in the highlands of central Turkey. A hiker, pausing to catch his breath on a…
A paired burial, elite Saka weapons, and ritual goldwork reshape understanding of Zhetysu’s ancient societies Archaeologists working in the Zhetysu region of southeastern Kazakhstan have…
Northern Arabia’s windswept desert has revealed a moment frozen in deep time: seven remarkably preserved human footprints stamped into the floor of an ancient lake…
