A marble sundial was found during the excavations in the ancient city of Aizanoi, which is described as the “Second Ephesus” in the Çavdarhisar district of Kütahya.
Near the Israeli border in Gaza, a farmer discovered mosaics from the Byzantine era. A Palestinian farmer named Suleiman al-Nabahin discovered the mosaics as he was planting an olive tree in the Bureij refugee camp, which is within a half-mile from the Israeli border. He immediately informed the local authorities of his find.
Included in the UNESCO World Heritage List, the 9,000-year-old Boncuklu Mound, 9 kilometers from Çatalhöyük, bears the first traces of agriculture and animal husbandry in Anatolia.
It is aimed to reach new information about the traditions of the Hittite civilization with 249 new hieroglyphs (an ancient writing system) discovered in the Yerkapı Tunnel in Hattusa, the capital of the Hittites.
The data obtained during the excavations in Kültepe Kaniş/Karum Mound, where the first written tablets of Anatolia are found, and the plant pollens obtained during the drilling works in the region, revealed that viticulture was practiced in Kayseri 5,000 years ago.
Ceramics and daily use items from the Turkish period unearthed in the ancient city of Stratonikeia in Muğla.
The Victoria & Albert Museum has sent a life-sized marble head of Eros back to Turkey. The 3rd century Sidamara Sarcophagus is one of the biggest, heaviest, and most significant Roman sarcophagi ever discovered. V&A conservators traveled with the head and collaborated with specialists from the Istanbul Archaeological Museum to reattach it to the lid.
Dr. Lecturer Ümit Çayır said that with the new archaeological studies to be carried out on the Pılır mound, important information about the oldest periods of Sivas can be reached.
Thousands of years of history are unearthed by a Japanese archaeologist. According to excavations conducted by a Japanese researcher, Büklükale was the first Cimmerian colony in Anatolia after they departed Ukraine before Christ.
Şanlıurfa is a city with a lot of different things to offer. Şanlıurfa, one of Turkey’s most important tourist destinations, is known as the “City of Prophets.”