Stone enclosures erected on a hilltop in southeastern Turkey around 9600 BCE predate Stonehenge by roughly 6,000 years, yet the reason they were built remains a subject of active scholarly dispute.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Syrian government and a war monitor said on Sunday that Turkish shelling of the Kurdish-held Afrin region ...

Temple complex of Ain Dara, photographed after being hit by Turkish air strikes (image courtesy the Syrian Directorate-General of Antiquities and Museums) Air raids by Turkish warplanes on the Kurdish ...

The Turkish flag was raised over the Temple Mount last week, following the flotilla clash while Jerusalem police banned Jews from holding the monthly march around the ancient gates of the holy site ...

The devastating attack on the Iron Age complex is being compared to ISIS's destruction of the Temple of Bel in Palmyra. A picture taken on January 29, 2018 shows destruction at the ancient temple of ...

(CNN) — Muğla in southwestern Turkey delivers exactly what travelers expect from this corner of the Mediterranean: sunlit coastlines, rugged mountains and the ruins of long-fallen empires. Yet beyond ...

Archaeological excavations at the site of a recently discovered temple in southeastern Turkey have uncovered a cache of cuneiform tablets dating back to the Iron Age period between 1200 and 600 BCE.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slammed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as a hypocrite after the Turkish leader condemned Israel for ostensibly excessive force in quelling protests around the ...

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