ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey will inform the United Nation's cultural body UNESCO about changes to Istanbul's ancient Hagia Sophia after Ankara converted the museum back into a mosque, Foreign Minister ...

Using a new fee and rules for tourists, Turkey is trying to preserve and improve the experience of worshippers at Hagia Sophia. Tourists can’t visit Hagia Sophia for free anymore. Since Monday, ...

Turkish archaeologists discovered a golden brooch and rare jade stone in Troy's 2,500 B.C. settlement layer, providing new ...

The T-shaped pillar is the first with a face to be found in the Stone Age archaeological sites of Turkey’s Taş Tepeler ...

The World Heritage Committee will examine proposals to inscribe 29 sites on UNESCO’s World Heritage List during its 40th session (10 to 20 July), which will be chaired by Ambassador Lale Ülker, ...

The Nomination files produced by the States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to ...

Archaeologists in Turkey uncovered a Roman hospital converted into a Byzantine church in Kaunos, revealing a millennium of ...

Along Turkey’s sun-drenched Aegean coast, Bodrum has emerged as one of the Mediterranean’s most captivating destinations. Often dubbed the “Turquoise Coast” and even the “St. Tropez of Turkey,” this ...

Investigation of the eastern and southern slopes of the mound at southeastern Turkey's site of Göbeklitepe with ...