Ancient 'Hunger Games'? Brutal youth sacrifice rituals found in Bronze Age Turkey
Recent excavations at Başur Höyük, a Bronze Age settlement dating to around 3300 BCE, uncovered royal burial tombs that ...
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Signs of Human Sacrifices in Bronze Age Tomb Found in Turkey Puzzles Scientists
DNA study of Bronze Age tombs in Turkey reveals teenage human sacrifices, challenging ideas about early Mesopotamian society.
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Human sacrifices found in a Bronze Age tomb in Turkey were mostly teenage girls
Ancient burials in Turkey Wengrow and colleagues have studied a series of skeletons found at the archaeological site of Başur Höyük on the Upper Tigris River in southeastern Turkey. Once part ...
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Human sacrifices found in a Bronze Age tomb in Turkey were mostly teenage girls
In the case of the Bronze Age burials in Turkey, this "age set" of adolescents could represent initiates into an ancient cult or victims of inter-group competition or violence, the researchers ...