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4,200-Year-Old Wall Emerges at a Vast Settlement Across the Dardanelles from Troy
Seven meters beneath Maydos Kilisetepe, archaeologists have reached a defense wall built more than four millennia ago. The Early Bronze Age structure once protected a coastal settlement comparable in size to Troy, although only a small fraction of the mound has been explored. The wall was uncovered at Eceabat on the Gallipoli Peninsula, close to…
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Bronze Sun Disk and Painted Clay Plaques Discovered in Georgia’s Highlands
A finely decorated bronze sun disk and rare painted clay plaques discovered on Georgia’s Javakheti Plateau are shedding new light on a little-explored highland region of the South Caucasus. At first glance, the high volcanic plateau of Javakheti, in southern Georgia, appears inhospitable. Long winters, sparse vegetation, and elevations rising above 2,000 meters define a…