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Excavations have begun at the ancient city of Idyros

Kemer Mayor Necati Topaloğlu, who inspected the excavation works at the ancient city of Idyros, stated, "Local and foreign visitors should see the location and condition of Idyros and how it has been preserved to this day; this place will greatly contribute to Kemer." Kemer Mayor Necati Topaloğlu expressed that Idyros Ancient City is one of the greatest assets of Kemer, stating, "Excavations have begun at Idyros Ancient City. We are grateful to Minister of Culture and Tourism Mehmet Nuri Ersoy and Antalya Museum Directorate for initiating the excavation works. We are very pleased. Work has been ongoing here for a long time. Idyros Ancient City is one of the most important assets of our district. Our local and foreign guests visiting our district should see the location and condition of Idyros and how it has been preserved to this day. This place will greatly contribute to Kemer." Archaeologists working at the excavation site mentioned that a 4-year work program has been determined, with 35 people working in the field. They also noted that drilling work is ongoing in the museum area, and mentioned plans to build a Roman bridge between the fishing harbor and the Idyros Ancient City.

5,700-year-old artifacts were found in Izmir

Head of Excavations and Faculty Member of the Department of Archeology at Trakya University, Faculty of Letters, Prof. Dr. Özlem Çevik said that they are continuing the excavations in the Ulucak Mound, which has a history of 8,500 years, with the support of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the Turkish Historical Society, Izmir Metropolitan and Kemalpaşa municipalities and Kemalpaşa Organized Industrial Zone. Stating that they came across important findings during this year's excavations, Çevik gave the following information: "The figurines were found in a place we think was a warehouse and they date back to approximately 5,700 B.C. They look like a male and female couple, the female one holding a baby. "Their hat-like headdresses are very different in shape from the figurines found in Ulucak so far, and there do not seem to be many similar ones known in Anatolia." Çevik stated that the figurines were made of terracotta and clay materials.

The goal of Kültepe mound is to go back 7,000 years

Archaeological excavations in the mound, where Prof Dr Tahsin Özgüç started the first scientific excavations in 1948, continue to shed light on Anatolian and world history. Ankara University Faculty of Languages, History and Geography Faculty Member Prof Dr Fikri Kulakoğlu, who has been leading the excavations in Kültepe for 75 years, told Anadolu Agency (AA) that his teacher Prof Dr Tahsin Özgüç has been excavating here for 58 years, and this could be a world record. Explaining that in the past 75 years, they have obtained results that illuminate the history of Anatolia, Mesopotamia and Syria, and they still reach new results, saying, "Kültepe's feature is that it brings surprises every year. Kültepe's history dates back to 6,000 years ago. Now there is an area for our work on the hill (in the old layers below the Warsama Palace). This place belongs to earlier strata, here we have a goal of descending to 7 thousand years. We are trying to understand the first establishment of Kültepe. We're trying to find out how it happened then." The story of a house can be written by looking at the soil. Pointing out that archaeological excavations take time, Kulakoğlu stated that their primary goal is to obtain data on when Kültepe was first established. Noting that they have been able to spare less time for excavations in Karum (lower city) due to funding and other conditions for a long time, Kulakoğlu said: "This year, we intend to work in a wider area in Karum again. We want to reach some data that we could not understand or find in previous excavations. Especially now, the soil looks just like soil, but in fact, there is so much information in that soil, in the ground of a house, that you can now understand it from the soil, even if we do not find any artifacts or objects in that house, in today's conditions, in today's technology, and after today's analysis. You can write the story of that house, now the technology is at this level. The soil in a grave we dug used to be thrown away, we don't anymore. Because there is a lot of data to inform us about the bacteria, illness, cause of death, ate and drank of the man in that grave, we want to collect them." Metropolitan Municipality is supporting Explaining that they were trying to understand the life in the mound before the Assyrian merchants came, Kulakoğlu said, "We have a big structure there. We see that this structure was enlarged by adding it several times, and we know that there is a great power here. In particular, we are looking for data that can confirm relations with foreign countries and Mesopotamia, Syria. Since 2017, there was the place we call the idol room. When we looked at the materials in it, we could directly relate to Syria and the Mediterranean coasts. We will now try to verify them. Of course, we will do these works as long as the weather conditions allow." Kulakoğlu stated that the Kültepe excavations were among the lucky ones because the local government and the Metropolitan Municipality valued and supported this value of Kayseri. "An international excavation team is carrying out the work" Indicating that the excavations were carried out by an international team and that they cooperated with different countries, Kulakoğlu said: "We are working together for Kültepe. We have a team from Italy, South Korea, and Japan. Apart from them, there are scientists from various countries and universities, from France to Denmark, America and even Brazil. All of them are trying to give Kültepe something. They don't look at the issue as 'it is not our country'. In fact, the data obtained here belongs to all humanity. Artifacts and information are both information that illuminates the common past of humanity. Therefore, everyone contributes voluntarily without expecting any remuneration or financial benefit.”

Excavations continue in the ancient city of Hypium

With the permission of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, General Directorate of Cultural Heritage and Museums, with the support of the Konuralp Museum Directorate and Düzce Municipality, the excavations in the ancient city, known as the oldest settlement in the region, continue for 12 months of the year. Excavations in the ancient city, which was determined to have been destroyed and changed by earthquakes and restorations in the past, are carried out meticulously by a team of 55 people. There are structures such as the ancient theater, city walls, aqueducts and Roman Bridge in the region, on which new structures were built over time, but the underground richness did not deteriorate. In the ancient city, where there are structures such as the ancient theater, aqueducts and Roman Bridge, which preserved their existence with steps and arched passages decorated with lion claw figures, 2,000-year-old medusa, mask statues and grotex figure, vault Apollo, goddess of victory and relief statues of Akteon were found. The ancient city, which can be visited free of charge under the control of Düzce Municipality and Düzce Provincial Culture and Tourism Directorate, was viewed by the AA team with an FPV drone. "A city with a serious investment" Koray Erdoğan, expert archaeologist of Düzce Municipality Directorate of Cultural Affairs, one of the excavation team of Prusias ad Hypium Ancient City, said that the ancient city, where excavations continue, was one of the important cities of the Bithynia Kingdom, which started from Bolu in the period called Cladyopolis and extended to Kadıköy in Istanbul today. Emphasizing that they evaluate the ancient city, which dates back to the 5th century BC, is at least 2500 years old, Erdoğan said, "This city has a serious importance between Istanbul and Ankara. It is a city that gained its economy in terms of agriculture and forestry in the past, and where there was a serious investment in terms of agriculture and forestry. With the excavations carried out in the theater section with an average of 12 thousand people, we are revealing the historical, cultural and economic riches of this city at that time." Underlining that the ancient city of Prusias ad Hypium is the only public structure unearthed in the Black Sea archeology, Erdoğan said that this is a very serious and private city, and that the construction of the 12,000-seat theater shows that at least 60 thousand people lived here. Stating that the ancient city of Prusias ad Hypium will be a serious tourism destination, Erdoğan said, "The goal of the excavations is to contribute to the history and culture of Anatolia, and then to our country and world cultural history, as it is the goal of all archaeological excavations."

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Excavations have begun at the ancient city of Idyros

5,700-year-old artifacts were found in Izmir

The goal of Kültepe mound is to go back 7,000 years

Excavations continue in the ancient city of Hypium