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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…