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Boncuklu Tarla (Beaded Field), located in the Ilısu neighborhood of the southeastern province of Mardin's Dargeçit district, sheds light on human history with its 12,000-year-old past.

Located near the modern city of Nasiriyah, in southern Iraq, the ancient city of Girsu was occupied by the Sumerian civilization from the 3rd millennium BC

Iraqi archaeological marvels that have survived millennia and the ravages of war now face a modern threat: Being blasted and slowly buried by sandstorms linked to climate change.

Ancient Babylonian treasures, painstakingly unearthed, are slowly disappearing again under wind-blown sand in a land parched by rising heat and prolonged droughts.

The number of people infected annually with HIV in Turkey is gradually rising, a health professional says.

Speaking to Demirören News Agency on Dec. 1, the day marked internationally as World AIDS Day to raise awareness of the disease, Şua Sümer from Selçuk University said that the number of HIV-positive people across the country increased by 7,000 in the last three years.

More than 100 works by Turkish artists delighted culture lovers at London's famed Saatchi Gallery on Oct. 26.

As many as a thousand guests were welcomed by organizers to the inaugural Turkish Art Week, featuring works by prominent artists from Turkey, Azerbaijan and North Cyprus.

BASE, an exhibition event featuring works by new graduates of fine arts faculties, will bring together newly graduated young artists from all over Turkey with art lovers under the same roof in Istanbul.

The fifth edition of BASE will be organized at Istanbul's Tophane-i Amire between Sept. 29 Sept. and Oct. 3.

A Turkish two-man team on Aug. 23 finished second in the first stage of Transquadra, considered one of the most challenging sailing races in the world.

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Do you want to buy a more than 3,000-year-old Sumerian tablet, listed as the property of a gentleman from Sussex in England and passed down as a family heirloom? On auction site liveauctioneers.com, bidding for the "Sumerian clay tablet" starts at 550 pounds ($750).

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Taking the opportunity of the rising number of their fellow nationals living in the Turkish capital, Somali entrepreneurs both earn and contribute to the country's economy with various shops they opened in the city.

An ancient historical site dating back 11,800 years was unearthed in southeastern province of Mardin.
The excavations in Mardin, which has been home to 25 different civilizations including the Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians, Hittites, Urartians, Romans, Abbasids, Seljuks and Ottomans, shed light on history.