Turkey would be a different entity today, had it not been for the First World War. Co-author of the British Council report, Remember the World as well as the War , Anne Bostanci, highlights the effects of the war on Turkey and why especially the younger generation ‘remembers’. Remembering a world war, by definition, must be about […]
Ankara accused of blackmailing museums into returning artefacts while allowing excavation sites to be destroyed Turkey has been accused of cultural chauvinism and attempting to blackmail some of the world’s most important museums in the wake of its demands for the return of thousands of archaeological treasures. According to cultural chiefs in Berlin, Paris and New York, […]
Three carved skull fragments uncovered at Göbekli Tepe, a Neolithic site in southeast Turkey known for its impressive megalithic architecture with characteristic T-shaped pillars, feature modifications not seen before among human remains of the time. The finds could indicate a new, previously undocumented variation of ‘skull cult’ in the Early Neolithic of Anatolia and the […]
