Arslan Kaya is a free-standing spire of volcanic rock about 52 feet tall, featuring carvings thought to be around 2,600 years ...

Archaeologists have finally deciphered a mysterious 2,600-year-old inscription on a Turkish monument. Words etched onto the ...

An ancient inscription on the Arslan Kaya monument in Turkey has been deciphered, revealing significant details about the ...

An archaeologist discovered that etching on the 2,600-year-old stone monument, known as Arslan Kaya, featured the word 'Materan,' which means 'mother goddess' in ancient Indo-European. The message ...

A new paper has confirmed and refined an inscription long thought impossible to pin down – and it seems to be a dedication to ...

The heavily damaged inscription, written in the Old Phrygian language, is carved into Arslan Kaya or “Lion Rock”, a ...

Mark Munn of Penn State University believes that he's translated the inscription on Arslan Kaya, after 120 years of debate.

The Mother Goddess of the Indus Valley people never really gave place to a dominant male. The Earth Mother continues to be worshipped in India as the power that nurtures the seed and brings it to ...

In celebration of Armenia’s 33rd Independence Day, the British Museum loaned the statue of the Armenian goddess Anahit for a ...

Now, researchers have found that the inscription spells out the name “Materan”, a goddess revered by the Greeks as the mother of gods. To read the text, researchers relied on mid-morning light.