Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ever sequenced.

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Project, featured on cover of Archaeology Magazine, underscoring its growing importance in reshaping understanding of early ...

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Excavations carried out across Türkiye in 2025 produced an exceptional range of archaeological finds, from humanity’s ...