🔍 The Lost Children Circle: Uncovering a Bronze Age Ritual in AnatoliaSeven small bodies, no graves.
https://www.myscrappydays.com/news.php?slug=lost-children-circle-bronze-age-ritual-anatolia 🔍 The Lost Children Circle: Uncovering a Bronze Age Ritual in Anatolia Seven small bodies, no graves. Just a circle of stones, pottery shards, animal bones, and ash. Who were these children? And why were they left there, nameless and unmarked? A circle in the ground. And no answers Usakli Höyük isn’t a name that echoes with grandeur or myth. It’s a remote, dusty site, perched between sky and silence on the Anatolian plateau. But in 2025, this humble place offered something extraordinary: the remains of seven children, not buried in tombs, but deposited — or perhaps abandoned — inside a circular ritual structure dating back to the Bronze Age. There were no coffins, no grave goods. Just bones — delicate, fragmented — lying among ceramic shards, animal remains, and traces of fire. Not a funeral. A scene. A symbol. A lost story. #Hittiterituals #Lostchildren #UsakliHoyuk #Anatolianarchaeology #Zippalanda
