Turkish archaeologist, linguist, writer and Turkey's first female Sumerologist Muazzez İlmiye Çığ died at the age of 110.

One of the leading figures in the field of Classical Archaeology, esteemed academic Prof. em. Dr. Volker Michael Strocka, has died at the age of 84. The Department of Classical Archaeology at the University of Freiburg mourns

Sabine Ladstätter, who led the excavations in Ephesus for 14 years, has died after a long, serious illness.