Thursday, April 2 2026

Tag: Diyarbakır archaeology

2,400-Year-Old Submerged City Remains Filmed Beneath Dicle Dam in Diyarbakır

2,400-Year-Old Submerged City Remains Filmed Beneath Dicle Dam in Diyarbakır

Beneath the still surface of the Dicle Dam Lake, traces of an older Eğil are still there — not erased, just hidden. Recent underwater footage recorded in the Eğil district of Diyarbakır has brought these remains back into view. During a routine training dive, search-and-rescue teams documented architectural structures lying beneath the reservoir — some

Çayönü Mound

5,000-Year-Old Earthquake Collapse Uncovered at Çayönü Mound in Southeastern Türkiye

Archaeologists excavating the prehistoric settlement of Çayönü Tepesi in Diyarbakır’s Ergani district have uncovered the remains of a building that collapsed during a powerful earthquake roughly 5,000 years ago — a rare glimpse into the seismic past of one of Anatolia’s earliest farming communities. Layers of a Forgotten Tremor The discovery was announced by Assoc.

Çayönü excavation, Neolithic burials Turkey, Early Bronze Age graves, Diyarbakır archaeology, Ergani mound, 11,000-year-old skeleton, Anatolian prehistory, Neolithic Anatolia, Bronze Age Anatolia, Çayönü Tepesi

5,000- and 11,000-Year-Old Burials Unearthed at Çayönü: Shedding Light on Neolithic and Bronze Age Anatolia

Archaeologists working at the Neolithic settlement mound of Çayönü, in Ergani district of Diyarbakır, Türkiye, have unearthed six ancient burials—five from the Early Bronze Age, about 5,000 years old, and one dating back 11,000 years to the Neolithic period. The discovery provides crucial evidence of how one of humanity’s earliest farming communities buried and remembered