A skeleton of an Urartian man with partially preserved brain tissue was found in Ayanis Castle
During the excavations of the Urartian period Ayanis Castle located on the shores of Lake Van in the Eastern Anatolia region of Turkey, a skeleton belonging to a Urartian man was found, with partially preserved brain tissue. In this year’s phase of the ongoing excavation efforts that have been carried out for 36 years at
How did the non-seafaring Hittites of the Bronze Age maintain control over Eastern Mediterranean trade?
During the Bronze Age, Anatolia possessed significant overland trade routes. The trade colonies established by Assyrian merchants formed the main arteries of trade in the 2nd millennium BC. These Assyrian traders transported goods from Mesopotamia to the western reaches of Anatolia through trade routes, contributing to the development of commerce. Notably, the Assyrian traders not