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Seeds of Ankara’s Endangered Flower Found in 4,000-Year-Old Hittite Vessel
Seeds linked to Ankara’s endangered Sevgi Flower have been found inside a 4,000-year-old Hittite vessel at Külhöyük in central Türkiye. The discovery places a plant now confined to a small area south of the capital within the region’s Bronze Age landscape. Türkiye’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism described the remains as the earliest known evidence…
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New AI Identifies 7,000-Year-Old Seeds to Reconstruct Ancient Farming
A new AI system designed to identify ancient plant remains is giving archaeologists a faster way to study charred seeds that preserve evidence of what people cultivated, stored and ate thousands of years ago. Identifying such remains is often slow and difficult. Ancient seeds may be burned, broken or distorted, forcing specialists to examine large…