In the rural mountains of eastern Turkey, stone walls peek out from the formidable mountains. Here, thousands of years of history has remained almost entirely untouched in the form of stone fortresses ...

A Turkish airstrike has destroyed the Ain Dara temple. BEIRUT -- The world has lost another valuable piece of ancient heritage. More than 50 percent of the remains of a Syrian temple built 3,000 years ...

Archaeologists excavating an ancient Urartian temple uncovered three shields and a helmet left as offerings for a war god, photos show. Screengrab from Mehmet Ersoy's Facebook video Brushing away the ...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Syrian government and a war monitor said on Sunday that Turkish shelling of the Kurdish-held Afrin region of Syria had seriously damaged an ancient temple. Ain Dara is an iron ...

Ancient bronze artifacts dedicated to a warrior god have been uncovered in a fortress that dates back to around 2,700 years ago. The bronze items—three shields and a helmet—were found during ...

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To the locals in Boğazkale, central Turkey, the smooth green boulder lying in the nearby ruins of an ancient temple has magical powers. It is a wishing stone, granting whomever places their hands upon ...

A towering stone fortress, that was once the site of ritualistic sacrifices, was discovered in a desolate eastern region of Turkey, researchers said. Serkan Erdoğan In the rural mountains of eastern ...