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© Ingman et al., 2021. PLOS ONE. Map showing location of Alalakh in Turkey.A new study published in PLOS ONE reports genetic and oxygen and strontium isotopic data for individuals buried at Alalakh, finding little evidence for the foreigners mentioned in texts. The Bronze Age in the eastern Mediterranean has long been considered by researchers to have been the 'first international age,' especially the period from 1600-1200 BC, when powerful empires from Anatolia, Mesopotamia, and Egypt set up large networks of subordinate client kingdoms in the Near East. These empires fought, traded, and ...

The people that settled in this valley were in contact with cultures across the eastern Mediterranean and beyond, including the entire Near East (western Asia, Turkey and  northeast Africa ).  This international travel and trade hypothesis was the subject of a fascinating open-access study published in the latest edition of  PLOS ONE , where the researchers have relied heavily on genetic and isotope data to reconstruct a dataset of over 200 individuals unearthed in the Amik Valley. An aerial photo of Tell Atchana, where the recent study on the so-called “first international age” reve...