The military achievements of the Islamic states against the Crusaders in the Eastern Mediterranean as of the second half of the 12th century forced the Papacy’s hand to issue decrees prohibiting the sale of various strategic commodities such as timber, iron and slaves to these

Chronologically showcasing the cultural heritage of Anatolia to the world in the historic buildings of the Ottoman Period, The Museum of Anatolian Civilizations celebrated its centenary in 2021. One of the few museums in the world with such an extensive collection, the Museum

Professor Kürşat Demirci’s speech discusses the historic process of ancient Turkish beliefs based on literature. The main theme of the speech focuses on basic rituals from the Animist belief system to the function of the shaman, from supernatural powers to belief in the afterli

Catalhoyuk is a key site for understanding the societies that lived in Anatolia during the Neolithic, about 9000 years ago. Between 1993 and 2018 an international team excavated and carried out research there and this work is reaching its final conclusions as the final publicat

The prevailing view in Europe and America during the 18th and 19th centuries was that humans did not change and that the only way to study them was a classification based on “race”. In the late Ottoman period and the early years of the Turkish Republic, this view became the fou

How the transition to the Neolithic (c. 7000/6800 BC) lifestyle, in other words how the shift towards a “dwelling”-oriented settlement system and a food-production economy practicing agriculture and animal husbandry, occurred in the Aegean still remains an important subject of

The Lydians were famous for their rich mineral resources, fertile lands, influential kings and luxury goods. Most of the archeological data on Lydian culture comes from the comprehensive excavations carried out for many years in the Lydian capital of Sardis. Also worth mentioni

German art historian Friedrich Theodor Paul Sarre (1865-1945) was still quite young when he embarked on a research trip from Izmir to Aksaray in the summer of 1895. After his return to Germany, Sarre compiled the notes and photographs of this journey in a book titled Reise in K

As an Antique Carian city, Nysa was an important center of education and science. Inhabited from the Hellenistic period to the Anatolian Seljuk period, Nysa’s significance continued during the Early Byzantine period due to its location on the pilgrimage road from Anatolia to th

Since the partition of the island in 1974, archeology of Cyprus has been developing in an unbalanced and biased way. While the south of the island is extensively explored thanks to the presence of internationally supported and organized excavation and survey projects, the north

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