The Unmatched 9,500-Year-Old Honeycomb City of Çatalhöyük

Updated 9 April, 2024 – 23:02 Joanna Gillan Overlooking the Konya Plain in Turkey lies the remarkable and unique ancient city of Çatalhöyük, the largest and best-preserved Neolithic site found to date. At a time when most of the world’s people were nomadic …

Discovering a New Neolithic World

March/April 2024 The Taş Tepeler, or Stone Mounds, in southeastern Turkey’s Şanlıurfa Province arc roughly 125 miles along the foothills of the Taurus Mountains, overlooking the Harran Plain and the Balikh River, a tributary of the Euphrates. The region …