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Archaeology
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 - Residents of an 8,000-year-old prehistoric proto-city could be buried in the houses where they lived, according to new research. The gruesome discovery 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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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A 3,500-year-old fragmented skull and femur that probably belonged to the Hittite period were recently unearthed in Sapinuwa (now Çorum) in central Anatolia,
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Hurriyet Daily News reports that an ancient city, about 1.5 kilometers in diameter, was discovered four to 10 meters below the ground in
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists in southeastern Turkey's Diyarbakır have discovered 48 ancient lamps dating back around 1,500 years. The lamps were discovered during excavations at the
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A 12,000-year-old lake dried up after a team of treasure hunters carried out an authorized excavation to unearth an ancient trove in Turkey's
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Excavations in the ancient city of Metropolis, located within the borders of the Torbalı district of the Aegean province of İzmir, Turkey continue
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - There is a mysterious giant ancient green rock in the capital of the Hittite Empire in central Turkey. Anyone who visits Hattusa, the
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A decision to deliberately destroy a 12,000-year-old Mesopotamian city has sparked outrage and controversy. Hasankeyf, located on the banks of the Tigris River
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Two 2,000-year-old marble eagle statues have been discovered in a Hellenistic temple at the Kınık Mound, located near the Yeşilyurt village in Niğde's Altunhisar
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A skull with marks indicating that neurosurgery existed 2,200 years ago, has been unearthed during excavations carried out in the ancient city of Euromus,
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Excavations at the ancient Urartu fortress in eastern Turkey's Van province will help to solve the mysteries of a 2,700-year-old temple. For the
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com -The lost kingdom of Urartu is shrouded in mystery and still very little is known about this ancient place and the origin of its
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - According to a new fascinating theory there may be a secret ancient lunar calendar hidden at a Hittite sanctuary in Turkey. Archaeologists have
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The beginnings of the city of Ashur, (also known as Assur) date back to the third millennium. The city was located about sixty
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com -The ancient city of Carchemish (Karkamış), which was in the past, the most important administration center for the Hittite Empire in the region, will
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Some 9,000 years ago, residents of Çatalhöyük (on modern Turkey,) one of the world's first large farming communities experienced overcrowding, infectious diseases, violence
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Artifacts
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Ivriz relief is a Hittite rock relief in south-central Anatolia, located in the town of Aydinkent (Konya), formerly called Ivriz (modern Turkey).
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An underground city partly submerged underwater and estimated to be around 5,000 years old was discovered by municipality crews trying to determine the
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A 2,300-year-old tablet with the ancient Greek alphabet was accidentally discovered inside the garden wall of a school in Turkey's southwestern Mugla province
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Although the historical authenticity of St. George’s existence has long been a subject of controversy, he remains an important figure in the history
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Archaeology
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have discovered 3,500-year-old Hittite hieroglyphs inside a barn located in Turkey's historical Cappadocia region, which is expected to shed light on an
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Museum Hotel Antakya in Turkey is today of great archaeological importance. During construction of the hotel, an amazing, 2,000-year-old mosaic was discovered. The
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A 20-meter-deep tunnel, which could lead to an ancient underground city, was recently discovered in Turkey's central Kayseri province. The tunnel is one-meter-wide
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A wave of migrants from what is now Greece and Turkey arrived in Britain some 6,000 years ago and replaced the existing hunter-gatherers
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