The Turkish Government is currently implementing a substantial development program for
southeastern Anatolia (the Güneydoğu Anadolu Projesi) that has already seen the building …

This paper employs data from selected sample survey areas in the northern Fertile Crescent
to demonstrate how initial urbanization developed along several pathways. The first, during …

Cities generate challenges as well as confer advantages on their inhabitants. Recent
excavations and surveys in northern Mesopotamia have revealed extensive settlements with …

The declassification of imagery from CORONA and subsequent intelligence satellite
programs has inspired a revolution in landscape archaeology in the Near East. CORONA …

The growth of cities in antiquity is paradoxical: before modern health and sanitation
standards, early urban dwellers suffered high mortality as a result of epidemics and chronic …

Leveraging a suite of remote sensing technologies deployed over large areas, this paper
presents results that challenge long-held ideas about the origin and development of the …

Long-term excavations at Arslantepe, Malatya (Turkey), have revealed the development, in
the fourth millennium BC, of a precocious palatial system with a monumental building …

In 2012, the Erbil Plain Archaeological Survey (EPAS) conducted its first season of fieldwork.
The project's goal is the complete map** of the archaeological landscape of Erbil, with an …

Ancient Mesopotamian civilization emerged in the alluvial lowlands of the Tigris–Euphrates
rivers in what is today southern Iraq in the fourth millennium BC, and it endured in …

The southern Levant and northern Mesopotamia are two areas in which the potter's wheel
seems to have appeared independently. New data enable us to undertake a comparison …