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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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Old Kingdom Tomb of High-Ranking Royal Official Found at Saqqara Reveals a Necropolis Reused Across Eras
Archaeologists at Saqqara have uncovered the Old Kingdom tomb of a high-ranking Egyptian official named Sekhentiu-Ptah, together with part of his funerary chapel, an inscribed false door and a group of alabaster ritual objects still preserved in their original setting. The excavation also exposed a network of burial shafts containing later human burials, painted funerary…
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11,000-Year-Old “Leopard Rider” Found at Karahantepe Reverses an Earlier Neolithic Image
An 11,000-year-old “leopard rider” found at Karahantepe has reversed one of the Neolithic site’s strangest images. An earlier sculpture showed a human carrying a leopard; in the newly discovered composition, the predator bears the human. The 70-centimeter-tall stone sculpture was uncovered during the 2026 excavation season at Karahantepe, near Şanlıurfa in southeastern Türkiye. Archaeologists found…
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A 2.2-Meter Statue of the God of Medicine Emerges from a Monumental Gateway at Aspendos
Archaeologists excavating Aspendos in southern Türkiye have uncovered a 2.20-meter-high marble sculpture of Asclepius accompanied by Telesphorus, adding new evidence for the worship of healing deities in the Roman city. The sculpture group came to light amid fallen stone blocks from the northern section of a monumental gateway beside the East Square, according to Türkiye’s…