Announcements

October
2025

TEAM MEMBERS

2023 KAZI EKİBİ/EXCAVATION TEAM: Berkay Dinçer, Serkan Şahin, Çiler Çilingiroğlu, A. Arda Sıbıç, A. Yusuf Bektaş, Zeynep İçel, Elif Ç. Doğu, Zeynep Kelpetin, Ceyda Koca & Murat Başlar.2024 KAZI EKİBİ/EXCAVATION TEAM: Berkay Dinçer, Serkan Şahin, ...
August
2025

Sinekkaya Mağarası is at the Heritage to the Future "The Golden Age of Archaeology" exhibition

A photograph from Sinekkaya Cave was included in the exhibition Heritage to the Future, ‘The Golden Age of Archaeology’ organised by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. The exhibition can be visited at the Presidential National Library in Ankara.
July
2025

2025 excavation season is started at Sinekkaya Cave!

The excavations at Sinekkaya Cave for the year 2025 started on 16 July. We plan to continue the excavations until mid-September. If you are travelling to Orhaneli during this period and would like to visit us, please let us know.
July
2025

Sinekkaya Cave is at Bursa Culture Route Festival!

The archaeological excavations carried out in Sinekkaya Cave were presented at the Bursa Culture Route Festival organised by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.Within the scope of the festival, ‘Bursa Excavations Conference’ organised by Bursa Museu...
May
2025

Sinekkaya Cave 2024 excavation results were presented in Mersin

The 2024 excavations of Sinekkaya Cave in the Orhaneli district of Bursa province, conducted by faculty members from the Anthropology departments of Istanbul and Kırşehir Ahi Evran universities under the direction of the Bursa Archaeological Museum, ...
May
2025

Sinekkaya is looking for team members!

In August 2025, we are looking for volunteers to participate in the excavations in Sinekkaya Cave!You can make your applications athttps://gonulluyuzbiz.gov.tr/Activity/Detail/100060.
May
2025

Sinekkaya Cave 2023 report published

The first results of the excavations carried out at Sinekkaya Cave in 2023 under the direction of the Bursa Archaeological Museum Directorate were published in the proceedings of the International Excavation Results Meeting, which is regularly publis...
April
2025

Sinekkaya Cave was presented in Kahramanmaraş

Sinekkaya Cave was presented at a symposium entitled ‘Our Cultural Heritage in Caves Through the Ages’ organised by the Kahramanmaraş Museum and Direkli Cave Excavation Directorate. The symposium included presentations on important cave excavations b...
December
2024

Sinekkaya Cave Excavations were presented at ArkeolojiHaber YouTube Channel

Sinekkaya Cave Excavation Scientific Supervisor Assoc. Prof. Dr. Berkay Dinçer made a presentation titled ‘Palaeolithic in Bursa’ on 25th December 2024 on ArkeolojiHaber YouTube Channel. In the presentation, the Palaeolithic research carried out in B...
September
2024

Sinekkaya Cave was visited by the Principal Investigators of the "Last Neanderthals" Project

Sinekkaya Cave was visited by the Principal Investigators of the ERC Synergy Project "Last Neanderthals".Prof. Dr. Francesco BERNA from the University of Siena and Prof. Dr. Stefano BENAZZI from the University of Bologna, principal invetigators of th...
August
2024

2024 excavation season at Sinekkaya Cave has ended

The excavations we carried out at Sinekkaya Cave in 2024 have ended as of today.We would like to thank Orhaneli Municipality and Beyce Women's Cooperative and Bursa Governorship Investment Monitoring and Coordination Directorate Manager Özlem Medeni ...
August
2024

Sinekkaya Cave was presented at Belgrade University

Sinekkaya Cave Excavations Scientific Supervisor Assoc. Prof. Dr. Berkay Dinçer participated in the symposium titled ‘Eastern Mediterranean Contact Area in the Early Prehistory’ held at the University of Belgrade in Serbia between 6-7 December 2024 a...
August
2024

Beyce Women's Cooperative members visited Sinekkaya Cave

Valuable members of Orhaneli Beyce Women's Cooperative visited Sinekkaya Cave.We chatted with them about the archaeological excavations carried out in the cave.
July
2024

Sinekkaya Cave 2023 Excavation Results are on Youtube'da!

You can watch the results of the first excavation season at Sinekkaya Cave on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QXfwprAl1E
July
2024

Sinekkaya Cave 2024 Excavation is starting!

The 2024 excavations to be carried out in Sinekkaya Cave in Orhaneli district of Bursa province will start on 10 July 2024.*auto translated.
June
2024

Sinekkaya Cave ArkeolojiHaber Excavation Diaries video is now online

Sinekkaya Cave 2023 studies were published in the Excavation Diaries section on ArkeolojiHaber YouTube channel.You can access the full video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJuW6ZIp7RU
May
2024

Sinekkaya Cave first excavation season results will be presented in Nevşehir

The first results of the Sinekkaya Cave 2023 excavations will be presented at the 44th International Excavation Research and Archaeometry Symposium to be held at Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University between 27-31 May 2024.Our paper will be presented ...
May
2024

Sinekkaya Cave has been visited by an international group of experts

Within the scope of the European Union supported COST Action (CA19141) Integrating Neanderthal Legacy: From Past to Present (iNeal) supported, a training school titled "Neanderthals in Tourism" was held on 7-9 May 2024, hosted by Istanbul University ...