Also Wednesday, in two separate incidents the Greek coast guard picked up 29 migrants from boats off islands near Turkey in the eastern Aegean Sea.

More information: Dilek Koptekin et al, Out-of-Anatolia: cultural and genetic interactions during the Neolithic expansion in the Aegean, Science (2025).

Such movement is illustrated by traces of obsidian, a volcanic glass used for tools, found in western Anatolia but sourced from central Anatolian volcanoes hundreds of kilometers away.

The Cycladic islands, in southern Aegean and north of the large island of Crete, sparked Greek civilization in the Bronze Age, 3,100 – 1,000 BCE.

A group of Turkish and Spanish scientists has revealed the results of an archaeological study in western Turkey that challenges the accepted historical dates of an aqueduct near the ancient city of ...

TURKEY has accused Greece of militarising islands given to the Greeks on condition it not arm them, fuelling tensions between the two countries.

Asia Minor The peninsula of western Asia bordered by the Black Sea to the north, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and the Aegean Sea to the west; the Turkish region of Anatolia. Full Glossary ...