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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Here again, what does it matter what we call her?" (55) There is another striking example of this "holy indifference" when it comes to identify the "Mother Goddess." Another correspondent, D., wrote: ...

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 ...

The inscription spells out the name "Materan," a goddess of the Phrygians, who flourished in what is now Turkey from roughly 1200 to 600 B.C. They knew her "simply as the Mother," Mark Munn ...

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