Nearly 13,000 years ago, carvings were etched into a large stone pillar at Göbekli Tepe, an archaeological site in southern ...
So a precious stone from Persia was named “Turkey stone,” and the French version of that name, “pierre turquoise,” gave us the word “turquoise.” In the same way, African guineafowl ...
Huge statues of gods, kings, and creatures can be found at Mount Nemrut, a Unesco site in southeastern Turkey. Christa Larwood climbs Mount Nemrut to learn more about a group of mystical stone ...
Soil from within the statue matched soils in Turkey, and lead at the foot of the statue matched lead residue on a stone base where it may have been attached at the Sebasteion. Investigators also ...
Over time, many of the stone blocks containing the inscription ... Located in the ancient Greek city of Oinoanda in southwestern Turkey, the 200-foot-long wall, now largely in ruins, was the ...
without leaving a single stone on top of another and no heads atop any shoulders, if necessary,” he said. The P.K.K. and groups associated with it have long sought greater rights for Turkey’s ...