Built roughly 11,500 years ago by hunter-gatherers in southeastern Turkey, Göbekli Tepe is older than farming, writing and the pyramids — and it changed how we understand the dawn of civilization.

On a stretch of rugged, semi-arid land not far from the Caspian Sea in Azerbaijan lies one of the most extraordinary open-air galleries in the world. Here, among a chaos

Out on the dry central plateau of Anatolia, where the Sakarya River winds through low hills and wheat fields, a great flat-topped mound rises above the plain like an artificial

“Greek civilization is definitely a follower of Anatolian civilization.It is not a forerunner. It cannot be a pioneer because the Greek existence is not as old as the Anatolian civilization.When

On a windswept Maltese clifftop stands Ħaġar Qim, a limestone temple raised more than 5,000 years ago — older than the pyramids, and still standing against the sea.

High in the Austrian Alps, a picture-perfect village of steep-roofed houses clings to a narrow strip of shore between a dark mountain and a still green lake. Hallstatt is one

For a long time, one of the great empires of the ancient world was almost completely forgotten. The Hittites, who once ruled much of Anatolia and challenged the mighty powers

When his father Muhammed Hudabende lost his sight, the conflict between the emirs reached its peak. The impact of his wife Begum’s policy against orders cannot be denied. The emirs,

At a time when the Abbasid caliphate was weakened and the Crusader attacks turned into a bloodbath, Nureddin Mahmud b. rose like the sun in the sky of the Islamic

30 November 2015 If we don’t get up, the provinces will be scattered If we don’t press, the roads are open If we don’t see, the sounds are blurry If