UNESCO World Heritage Committee has decided to add Turkey's Catalhoyuk Neolitic City on the World Heritage list at their meeting in Saint Petersburg, Russia on Sunday. UNESCO World Heritage Committee ...

A member of UNESCO’s World Heritage List, the 9,000-year-old prehistoric site at Catalhoyuk, central Turkey sheds light on the deep history of humanity. Home to some 8,000 people in the Neolithic age, ...

Catalhoyuk, Turkiye – About an hour southeast of Konya lies one of the most exciting Neolithic finds of the 20th century – the densely populated settlement of Catalhoyuk. Occupied for 1,000 years from ...

Genetic analysis of bodies from a 9,000-year-old settlement has revealed clues pointing to unusual societal structures. As far back as the 1960s, archaeologists had a feeling that Catalhoyuk was ...

An ancient Turkish city was ruled by females who lived in a matriarchal society, more than 9,000 years ago, a new study has confirmed. Researchers analysed ancient DNA from Stone Age burials of more ...

Genetic analysis of skeletons at Catalhoyuk, a Neolithic settlement in Turkey, suggests a matriarchal society where women were central figures. Maternal lineage shaped family organization, with women ...

Archaeologists in Turkey have discovered the oldest bread on Earth, dating back to 6600 BC. The 8600-year-old fermented bread was found in Catalhoyuk, Turkey, and its analysis revealed its chemical ...

Archaeologists at Turkey's neolithic site of Catalhoyuk in central Anatolia have uncovered a "unique" complete female figurine, The Ministry of Culture and Tourism said on Tuesday. The statuette, ...

Last summer, Claudia McKenzie ’18 uncovered a 10,000 year old painting using just small dental tools. The find came during McKenzie’s first experience with archaeology, at the Stanford Archaeology ...