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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have unearthed the main gate of the historical Harran Palace, in southeastern Turkey’s Şanlıurfa province Harran region. The city of Harran was
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Today many modern parents visit shops to buy toys for children. Ancient people also wanted their kids to have something fun to play
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have unearthed parts of a loom, tools for creating textiles and accessories dating back four millennia in western Turkey. A view of the
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - For thousands of years, mosaics were a popular art form for in many cultures around the world. They have a very long history
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A team of Turkish archaeologists started excavations in the Kizilkoyun Necropolis area with 2,000-year-old tombs were unearthed and bear resemblance to the discoveries
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A stunning 2,400-year-old terracotta mask of God Dionysus has been discovered in an old city today known as Daskyleion. Daskyleion, also known as
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - During the excavation and restoration work at Ekşi Höyük, Denizli in Western Anatolia, archaeologists have discovered 8,600-year-old bone needles and round stones for
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - In 2010 excavations of the ancient city of Dara in southeastern Mardin province, archaeologists unearthed a 1,500-year-old mass grave. Dara - located in
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archeologists discovered the remains of a massive and complete structure similar to Rome’s Colosseum in the 2,700-year-old Mastaura ancient city in the Aegean
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Excavations at Seyitömer Mound (Seyitömer Höyük) in western Kütahya province, Turkey started in May, and archaeologists already unearthed some of the Early Bronze
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An ancient castle known as Zerzevan Castle is considered as one of the best-preserved Roman garrisons of the world. Both architecture and style
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The ancient city of Tyana is another Turkish city that can show much of its rich history thanks to archaeological excavations that are
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A 2,700-year-old Urartian castle will be soon an open-air museum. During the last three decades, archaeologists in Eastern Anatolia have been working hard
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists continue excavations of the ruins of the ancient city of Tripolis located on the Büyük Menderes River in western Turkey's Denizli province, about
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - As soon as the excavation works will be completed, the archaeologists begin the restoration of Tripolis’ ancient fountain, one of the city's landmarks.
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archeologists have unearthed a 1,700-year-old statue of a female from the Hellenistic period in the ancient city of Perge, now in Turkey’s Mediterranean
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Excavation works started in Kilis at Oylum Höyük (mound), which is located at the zero point on the Syrian border. Oylum Höyük is
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Fossils of palm leaves were found growing on the edge of the sea in Igdir, located at the foot of Ararat Mountain. They
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeological excavations conducted at the site of the ancient city of Pergamon show that the region is even older than first thought. In
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The ancient city of Isaura - inhabited by 10,000 people during the Roman period - is home to the Zengibar Castle, which was
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The ancient underground world in Turkey is very impressive. The famous underground city of Derinkuyu in Cappadocia is one example and so is
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Patara Lighthouse was found during the excavations carried out in Patara Antique city, and the structure is exactly 60 years older than the
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A stone chest has been discovered in Balatlar Church in Sinop, northern Turkey. Archaeologists say the chest is believed to have stored fragments
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in Assos, one of the most important port cities of antiquity, unearthed 1,600-year-old pendants made from bones and depicting human and animal figures.
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The ancient city of Patara will be widely celebrated in 2020, this year has been declared as the year of Patara. Long-term excavations
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An ancient slab of limestone, probably engraved about 1,800 years ago was unearthed at the ancient city of Hadrianopolis, located in the Eskipazar district
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Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists are still trying to determine the age of the unearthed tomb that belonged to Priest Monoha, but preliminary studies show the burial
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Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists were surprised when they unearthed 8,500-year-old-teeth that appeared to have been intentionally drilled to be worn as beads in a necklace or
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Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – In a region regularly visited by the Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians, Hittites, Assyrians, Romans, Seljuks, and Ottomans, among others, archaeologists have unearthed remarkable structures
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