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Unearthing a forgotten monument in Turkey

Leman Altuntaş
Arkeonews Net
Sat, 31 May 2025 18:03 UTC
Kurt Tepesi
© Prof. Dr. Bahattin Çelik
In the arid plains of southeastern Anatolia, a quiet giant slumbers. While Göbekli Tepe has dazzled archaeologists and the global public alike as the world's earliest known temple complex, a lesser-known site within the Taş Tepeler archaeological zone is beginning to attract the curiosity of scholars: Kurt Tepesi. Long overshadowed by its more famous neighbors, Kurt Tepesi is now emerging as a crucial piece in the complex puzzle of early Neolithic society.

Located within the Şanlıurfa province of Türkiye, Kurt Tepesi forms part of the ambitious Taş Tepeler Project, a network of twelve archaeological mounds that challenge the traditional narrative of civilization's dawn. This collective of sites — including Karahan Tepe, Sayburç, Sefer Tepe, and Harbetsuvan — is revealing that monumental architecture, social organization, and symbolic behavior flourished in the Fertile Crescent far earlier than previously believed.

Yet among these names, Kurt Tepesi has remained strangely quiet in both media and academic circles. This is not due to a lack of potential. On the contrary, Kurt Tepesi may offer a rare window into a transitional phase of Neolithic life — one that bridges the gap between mobile forager societies and settled, symbolically complex communities.
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The Roman massacre that never happened according to a new study of an iconic archaeological site


Bournemouth University
Tue, 20 May 2025 08:19 UTC
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© Martin SmithTwo of the skeletons excavated by Mortimer Wheeler in the 1930s, dating from the 1st century AD. Both these individuals exhibit bladed weapon injuries, whilst one has a spear head lodged in his spine, previously interpreted (wrongly) as a Roman ballista bolt.
A new study by archaeologists at Bournemouth University (BU) has revealed that bodies recovered from a 'war-cemetery' previously attributed to the Roman Conquest of Britain at Maiden Castle Iron Age hillfort in Dorset, did not die in a single dramatic event.

A re-analysis of the burials, including a new programme of radiocarbon dating, has revealed that, rather than dying in a single, catastrophic event, individuals fell in periods of lethal violence spanning multiple generations, spread across the late first century BC to the early first century AD. This is suggestive of episodic periods of bloodshed, possibly the result of localised turmoil, executions or dynastic infighting during the decades leading up to the Roman Conquest of Britain.

BU's Dr Martin Smith, Associate Professor in Forensic and Biological Anthropology, who analysed the bodies said: "The find of dozens of human skeletons displaying lethal weapon injuries was never in doubt, however, by undertaking a systematic programme of radiocarbon dating we have been able to establish that these individuals died over a period of decades, rather than a single terrible event".

The 'war-cemetery' of Maiden Castle Iron Age hillfort in Dorset is one of Britain's most famous archaeological discoveries. Discovered in 1936, many of the skeletons unearthed had clear evidence of trauma to the head and upper body. Dig director at the time, Sir Mortimer Wheeler suggested, were "the marks of battle", caused during a furious but ultimately futile defence of the hillfort against an all-conquering Roman legion. Wheeler's colourful account of an attack on the native hillfort and the massacre of its defenders by invading Romans, was accepted as fact, becoming an iconic event in popular narratives of Britain's 'Island Story'.
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Newly discovered 'ghost' lineage linked to ancient mystery population in Tibet, DNA study finds

Kristina Killgrove
Live Science
Thu, 29 May 2025 18:42 UTC
A study of more than 100 genomes from people who lived in ancient China has unmasked a "ghost" in their midst.
burial of Xingyi_EN,
© Yunnan Institute of Cultural Relics and ArchaeologyThe burial of Xingyi_EN, a woman who died in the Early Neolithic period in Yunnan Province, China.
A 7,100-year-old skeleton from China has revealed a "ghost" lineage that scientists had only theorized about until now, a new study finds.

Researchers made the discovery while studying ancient skeletons that could help them map the diverse genetics of central China. The DNA of this ghost lineage individual, an Early Neolithic woman who was buried at the Xingyi archaeological site in southwestern China's Yunnan province, also holds clues to the origins of Tibetan people.

"There likely were more of her kind, but they just haven't been sampled yet," study co-author Qiaomei Fu, a paleontologist at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing, told Live Science in an email.

Fu and colleagues detailed their analysis of 127 human genomes from southwestern China in a study published May 29 in the journal Science. Most of the skeletons that they sampled were dated between 1,400 and 7,150 years ago and came from Yunnan province, which today has the highest ethnic and linguistic diversity in all of China.

"Ancient humans that lived in this region may be key to addressing several remaining questions on the prehistoric populations of East and Southeast Asia," the researchers wrote in the study. Those unanswered questions include the origins of people who live on the Tibetan Plateau, as previous studies have shown that Tibetans have northern East Asian ancestry along with a unique ghost ancestry that has mystified researchers.

The oldest person the researchers tested was found to be the missing link between Tibetans and the ghost' lineage.
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Flashback 'Russia's last great writer': The scandalous story of Eduard Limonov - exiled by the KGB, before he shocked post-Soviet Moscow

Georgiy Berezovsky, Vladikavkaz-based journalist
RT
Wed, 22 Feb 2023 10:28 UTC
Eduard Limonov
© RTEduard Limonov
The convinced revolutionary, and literary icon - who grew up in Ukraine - was born 80 years ago

An enfant terrible, and a lifelong teenager, who became Russia's "last great writer;" an emigrant and a patriot; a bohemian and an uncompromising revolutionary with the spirit of a field commander; a politician ideologically tied both to the government and the opposition, yet an irreconcilable enemy of both; a sensual and tender man full of primordial rage and hatred for the living and the dead - any attempt to describe Eduard Limonov inevitably boils down to contradictory opinions expressed by his contemporaries, fans, friends, and foes.

Comment: The biography of Eduard Limonov is intertwined with the late 20th century history of the USSR, US, Europe and Russia and illustrates how the complexity of living can manifest within a single life. Eduard Limonov was not intimidated by being different and was willing to explore something new.
in the mid-'70s Limonov and his wife Elena Shchapova were exiled from the USSR.
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Limonov's wife left him.
In the Eng Wiki for Elena Shchapova, there is a link to a Russian article, a completely different story, but if the previous can tell something about history, the following might too...
16.02.2005 15:52
An Italian Count Washes the Dishes After His Russian Wife[...]
'Elena, how did you meet the Comte de Carly?'

- At the Italian representative office in New York, while watching a new film, a short man approached me and invited me to his birthday party... Three days after I met him, he proposed to me. He said that he wasn't going to get married before he met me. But when he saw me, he knew I was his woman. I've turned him down many times. But he was very well groomed. I felt an extraordinary nobility in him. He said that when I got married, I could immediately get an Italian passport and go to Moscow to visit my mother. I didn't have any documents at that time. After I got married, I quit my modeling job and only worked on writing and traveling. However, my husband died five years ago.
[...]
- By the way, about models. You were also engaged in this business.

- I was the first Russian model in New York, I worked in a large agency. I was photographed for reputable magazines. Together with Nastassja Kinski, I participated in the filming of a film based on Turgenev's 'Spring Waters'.

- They say that you can enter the world of show business only through the bed of a producer.

- Once a famous American fashion model was asked about the reasons for her success. She replied that she only goes to bed with famous photographers. If a model wants to achieve something, her photographer must be her lover. Thus, he becomes interested in pushing his beloved to the pages of expensive magazines. I was also constantly pestered with sexual proposals, but I always treated photographers as my work colleagues. It is not surprising that there were many situations when I suffered from my stubbornness and was suspended from work...

- What path did you choose?

- According to the Russian habit, I fought, scandalized. I broke through myself. True, today everything has changed dramatically, but then going to bed with the right person was an unwritten law. On the other hand, when a model becomes famous, she no longer needs forced romances. She begins to dictate her own laws. I came to Italy already famous. Subsequently, I worked with the largest fashion designers of the country. Then I got married, and gave up this business.
"I fought, scandalized" - it is not given that is a Russian habit per se - but since Eduard Limonov, the previous husband of Elena Shchapova also fought and scandalized, they shared at least that much.

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Video: The western cabal destroys ten thousand years of history without conscience

Maria Saadeh and Prof Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research
Tue, 20 May 2025 02:06 UTC
Old Syrian Map
Damascus is the oldest city in the history of humanity.

America's "humanitarian wars" do not only destroy sovereign Nation States, transforming them into territories, they also destroy thousands of years of civilization.

Mesopotamia, the Land of Two Rivers, the coastline of the Levant.

The Global Research video production entitled Syria: Washington Destroys Ten Thousand Years of History features renowned author Maria Saadeh, former member of Parliament of the Republic of Syria.

It can be viewed in the original French as well as with subtitles in English and Arabic, and in several other languages including Chinese, Hebrew, Farsi, Russian, Spanish and Turkish.

Cette production vidéo axée sur la destruction de dix mille ans d'histoire par Washington avec Maria Saadeh, auteur de renom et ancienne députée du Parlement de la République de Syrie, peut être visionnée en français, et avec sous-titres en huit langues.


Comment: English Translation (Deeple) "This video production focusing on Washington's destruction of ten thousand years of history with Maria Saadeh, renowned author and former member of the Parliament of the Republic of Syria, can be viewed in French, with subtitles in eight languages."



Click the hyperlinks below and forward the video directly to your friends worldwide:

Français, English, عربي, Hebrew, Farsi, Русский, Español, Turkish, 中文,

Our objective is to reach out to people worldwide: In the Middle East, Africa, The Americas, Western Europe, Russia, China, East and South East Asia...

Our longstanding commitment is to world peace and "true democracy."

We are in solidarity with the people of Syria

نحن متضامنون مع الشعب السوري

Comment: Since time immemorial, the world has seen destruction after destruction, with so much of the past simply pulverized, erased, covered over or defaced. There is much that likely is not even known today through earth changes. That said, it was of no matter that the grand western proxy were let lose in Syria to bludgeon people and history to death, without a care in the world.

Jolani
Artifacts are one thing, yet then there was the slaughtering that the western press seemed to lust over throughout all those years, the proxy war slaughter that never stopped. All now seems to be part of the western Syrian 'regime' change wish come true, when along came a spider and the installment of the headchopper supreme, Jolani, officially, now president Ahmad al-Sharaa (or once Hassan Abu Haniyeh or Adnan Ali al-Hajj, who can say). Thus, an old terrorist was suddenly reanimated in a suit and tie following his break with the Salafist-jihadist old guard, while wooing world leaders who now act like they are at his beck and call, signaling that all former sins are forgiven, if not forgot. The press is, more or less, silent.

So, from a previous listed terrorist with ten million dollars of bounty on his head, to Jolani, the gentlemen quarterly head chopping ruler cozying up to westerner (no pun intended) heads of state to pal around with, to make deals.

Going back to December, 2024, PBS looked into Jolani (his first western interview) to help provide a slant, a cleaned up image, wherein Washington claims they need to work with him rather than depose of him, fearing another round of mass immigration that he holds in camps.

'This isn't war. It's genocide': Why the world is silent about massacres in Syria

Back to antiquities, a snapshot:

Wiki - "List of heritage sites damaged during the Syrian civil war"

Demolition

Several cultural heritage sites in Syria have been deliberately destroyed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant from 2014 onwards, including:

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Archaeologists uncover prehistoric fishing evidence in southeast Iran


Tehran Times
Sat, 17 May 2025 18:21 UTC
Fishing Village
© Tehran TimesArchaeologists have discovered compelling evidence of ancient fishing and maritime activities along Makran coasts in southeastern Iran.
According to Mortaza Hessari, head of the excavation team, they have uncovered significant evidence of fishing and maritime activities across various cultural periods during ongoing investigations at the Kopal site on the Makran coasts (Dashtiari county, Sistan-Baluchestan province).

Hessari stated: "These discoveries include not only stone tools from the Paleolithic period but also unprecedented evidence of fishing tools such as fishing hooks and net weights, indicating the sustained use of marine resources in this region during prehistoric times."

He added: "In one excavation trench, a fishing weight was found alongside a collection of shells, marine animal bones, and pottery shards dating back to the 4th millennium BC. Laboratory studies of these marine remains could provide valuable insights into the aquatic species utilized by the inhabitants of this area during the late prehistoric period."
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Massive ancient Roman military fortress uncovered in one of Egypt's 'important strategic locations'


Fox News
Mon, 19 May 2025 12:29 UTC
New digs
© Egypt Ministry of Tourism and AntiquitiesAncient military fortifications uncovered
Ancient military fortifications dating back to the Ptolemaic and Roman eras of Egyptian history were recently uncovered by archaeologists.

The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced the discovery in a Facebook post, which was translated from Arabic to English, on May 3. Officials said that a recent excavation at the Tell Abu Sefeh site led to the uncovering of an expansive military complex.

The Tell Abu Sefeh site is located in North Sinai, near the Egyptian city of Ismailia and the Suez Canal.

Described as one of Egypt's "important strategic locations," Tell Abu Sefeh emerged as a prominent location in antiquity. The ministry of tourism and antiquities said the site played a "pivotal role in protecting Egypt's eastern borders."

There, archaeologists "uncovered remains of military fortifications, soldiers' residential units, and a trench indicating the possibility of another fortress in the area," according to the ministry. Aerial pictures show the sophisticated ancient military fortifications, along with artifacts such as basins and pots.
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How war propaganda fueled American foreign policy for a century

Ryan McMaken
Mises Wire
Thu, 15 May 2025 00:00 UTC
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© Adobe StockThe News: Real or Not?
The New York Times this week reports that the Trump administration has canceled many grants that were to fund "research" on "misinformation." This is being presented by the media as a dastardly deed that will supposedly allow the spread of misleading or false information through various media channels.

Of course, if there were any genuine interest in studying the most egregious efforts to spread misinformation, media outlets like the Times would study themselves and their friends in the regime. After all, few organizations have been more complicit than the national American media and the US foreign policy establishment when it comes to spreading much of the worst propaganda in American history. I say "worst" because this propaganda has often been used in service to the worst ends: to gin up support for a variety of wars resulting in the deaths of thousands — sometimes even hundreds of thousands — of innocents.
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The myth of the Yada Stone and the mystery of Hattusha's Green Stone


Ancientist
Fri, 16 May 2025 00:01 UTC
Yada Stone
© AncientistYada Stone.
Among the most enigmatic elements of Turkic mythology is the Yada Stone — a mystical object said to have been granted by the Sky God (Tengri) to the ancestors of the Turks. According to legend, this stone bestowed its possessor with the power to control the skies: to summon rain, unleash snowstorms, or stir the winds at will.

The stone's appearance is as fascinating as its powers: typically dark in color, marked with red or white speckles, and shaped like a bird's egg. It was not easily found. Myths tell of a sacred water bird named Sürhab, which nested on rain-fed ponds. When the waters receded, the stone would be found beneath the abandoned nest.

Shamans and the Price of Power

The Yada Stone was used not only by kam (shamans), who served as mediators between the spiritual and human worlds, but also by unique individuals known as yadacı. Yet every use of the stone came with a price: a loved one would perish, or a calamity would follow. For this reason, those who possessed the stone often led lives of sorrow, isolation, and poverty — despite receiving riches from rulers grateful for their weather-working powers.
Yadacı Shamans
© AncientistYadacı Shamans.
An Eyewitness Account from the 11th Century

In the 11th century, the great Turkic linguist Mahmud al-Kashgari mentioned the Yada Stone in his legendary work Dīwān Lughāt al-Turk. He described how, during a massive summer fire in the land of the Yaghma people, the stone was used to summon snow that extinguished the flames — an act he attributed to both the stone and divine permission.
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Submerged stone circles reveal perilous migration 11,000 years ago of a prehistoric people to far northern Scotland

Kristina Killgrove
Live Science
Tue, 13 May 2025 22:12 UTC
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© Jamie BoothA circular alignment of stones discovered on the Isle of Skye
Stone tools and stone circles discovered in coastal Scotland show that prehistoric people settled farther north than anyone previously believed.

The discovery of submerged stone circles and Stone Age tools on the Isle of Skye reveals that humans occupied what is now northern Scotland about 11,000 years ago.

The finding indicates that these people braved a volatile landscape of glaciers and fluctuating coastlines in northern Scotland, venturing much farther north than experts once believed.

"This is a hugely significant discovery which offers a new perspective on the earliest human occupation yet known, of north-west Scotland," Karen Hardy, a prehistoric archaeologist at the University of Glasgow, said in a statement. Hardy and colleagues published a study of two archaeological sites on the Isle of Skye in the Journal of Quaternary Science in April.
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