Researchers previously assumed that some of the graves at the site were royal burials. A new study presents a different ...

Archaeologists are unsure why unrelated teenagers were buried in an elaborate Bronze Age tomb but think their age may be a ...

Arslantepe is located on Turkey’s Maltya Plain far from lowland Mesopotamia’s urban centers ... complex also contains evidence of human sacrifices. More specifically, many of the victims ...

The teenagers’ skeletons were unearthed at the cemetery of Basur Höyük where researchers previously uncovered evidence of ...

DNA study of Bronze Age tombs in Turkey reveals teenage human sacrifices, challenging ideas about early Mesopotamian society.

At the threshold of written history, when the first civilizations began to consolidate in Mesopotamia and Anatolia, the world ...

Eight human sacrifices were found at the entrance to this tomb, which held the remains of two 12-year-olds from ancient Mesopotamia. | Credit: Photograph by permission of the Başur Höyük ...