3,000-year-old urn burial discovered in southern Turkey

An urn burial believed to date back around 3,000 years has been discovered in the southern Turkish province of Kahramanmaras.

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A team of archaeologists unearthed the urn in the Karahuyuk region of the Elbistan district as part of excavation works ongoing since 2015.

People living during the Iron Age preferred to bury the deceased in the places where they lived, Bora Uysal, an academic from the Archaeology Department at Cumhuriyet University, told Anadolu Agency.

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Uysal has been carrying out the excavation works in Karahuyuk for three years.

This is the second cremation cemetery discovered in Anatolia. The first one, from the late Hittite era, is located in southeastern Gaziantep province, according to the academic.

Source: Anadolu Agency [August 22, 2018]