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An Animal-Figured Seal at Büklükale May Belong to an Early Hittite Tradition
A handled stamp seal with two animal figures has been found at Büklükale, the multi-layered archaeological site near the Kızılırmak River in central Türkiye. The object was uncovered during excavations in Karakeçili district of Kırıkkale province, where a team from the Japanese Institute of Anatolian Archaeology has been working under the direction of Assoc. Prof.…
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Anatolia’s Earliest Indigo-Dyed Textile Discovered at Bronze Age Beycesultan
A 3,900-year-old blue textile fragment uncovered in western Türkiye has been identified as the earliest known indigo-dyed fabric in Bronze Age Anatolia. The discovery, made at Beycesultan Höyük, also includes the region’s first confirmed evidence of single-needle knitting—revealing a level of textile sophistication previously undocumented in Anatolia during the second millennium BC. The research, led…
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A Hittite Goddess Vessel from Eskiyapar and the Ritual of “Drinking the God”
The Hittites are often remembered for their fortified capitals, stone reliefs, and royal archives carved onto clay tablets. Yet behind their political power lay a dense and symbolic religious world, one in which gods were not distant beings but active participants in daily and ceremonial life. Some of their most intriguing rituals are described in…