Assoc. Prof. Dr. Erhan Bıçakçı, a faculty member at the Department of Prehistoric Archaeology of the Faculty of Letters of Istanbul University, died of a heart attack.

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