A 4,000-Year-Old Hittite Vessel in Ankara Held Seeds of a Flower Found Nowhere Else

Archaeologists excavating Külhöyük in central Türkiye have discovered ancient seed remains inside a 4,000-year-old Hittite vessel. Türkiye’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism identified them as the oldest known traces of the Sevgi Flower, an endangered plant that now grows naturally only in Ankara’s Gölbaşı district. The discovery connects a Bronze Age settlement with a living […] The post A 4,000-Year-Old Hittite Vessel in Ankara Held Seeds of a Flower Found Nowhere Else appeared first on Anatolian Archaeology.