HISTORY

Growing in the Gevaş district of Van province in Turkey and popularly known as the "crying bride" or "flower of sadness," inverted tulips captivate with their beauty. Inverted tulips are an endangered species that bloom for 15 days a year…

Sheikh Muslihiddin Mosque in Kaynarca district of Sakarya province in Türkiye preserves its originality despite the many restorations the mosque has undergone over the past 537 years. Sheikh Muslihiddin of the Ahi organization constructed…

A first phase of the archaeological excavation, which started in an area near St. Vlas' mausoleum in the Gökmedrese district of Sivas province in Türkiye, has been completed. Around 10,000 historical artifacts, tandoors, floors, water wells…

An ancient mosaic floor from the Byzantine era has been discovered in Israel. The mosaic floor was once part of an ancient church that stood near a path connecting the coastal region to the Judean Shephelah lowlands. The remains of…

More than a hundred "outstanding" engravings dating from 3,000 to 5,000 years ago have been found inside Tarragona's Cova de la Vila cave in Catalonia, Spain's northeastern region. Despite the fact that the cave was discovered in 1941,…

An Egyptian archaeological team has discovered a limestone sphinx and a stele dating back to the Roman era in Qena province, southern Egypt, according to a statement by the country's Antiquity Ministry on Monday. The sphinx-shaped statue…

In Istanbul, restoration of the 45-meter-high Tower of Justice, located in the courtyard of Topkapı Palace, the administrative center of the Ottoman Empire for centuries, has been completed. While a portion of the tower, which is a symbol…

A project is carried out to read the Hittite cuneiform tablets in the inventory of Turkey's Ankara Anatolian Civilizations Museum, Istanbul Archeology Museums and Çorum Museum by artificial intelligence. The first phase of the project,…

Egypt's efforts continue to return archaeological artifacts that have been smuggled out of the country illegally, and as a result of the effort by Egypt, Green Sarcophagus was recovered from the Houston Museum of Natural Sciences. Egyptian…

Visitors flocked to the Ahlat region in Türkiye's Bitlis province, which is an open-air museum that houses the world's largest Turkish-Islamic Cemetery and is notable for its historical artifacts. In 2022, 150,000 people visited the region,…