An ancient city located in the Turunç district of the resort town of Marmaris will be restored to serve tourism.

This ancient city dates to the Hellenistic era and now consists of an amphitheatre on the side of the hill, a temple and statue pedestals.

Archaeologists in the ancient city of Troy in Turkey have found the remains of a man and a woman believed to have died in 1,200 B.C., the time of the legendary war chronicled by Homer, a leading German professor said on Tuesday.
Ernst Pernicka, a University of Tubingen professor of archaeometry who is leading excavations on the site in northwestern Turkey, said the bodies were found near a defense line within the city built in the late Bronze age.
The discovery could add to evidence that Troy’s lower area was bigger in …

A reclining man with a bushy beard and big nose is the latest to join a haul of stone figurines unearthed at the ancient site of Çatalhöyük in Turkey. The sculpture, which measures around six inches high, was uncovered at the neolithic site last week.
Çatalhöyük was the final resting place of some of the world’s first farmers. Other figurines representing farmyard animals and people in sitting and standing positions have already been excavated at the site, which dates back to the dawn of farming some 9,000 years ago.
Archaeologists working on …

A colossal statue of Apollo, the Greek god of the sun, light, music and poetry, has emerged from white calcified cliffs in southwestern Turkey, Italian archaeologists announced.
Colossal statues were very popular in antiquity, as evidenced by the lost giant statues of the Colossus of Rhodes and the Colossus of Nero. Most of them vanished long ago — their material re-used in other building projects.
“This colossal statue of Apollo is really a unique finding. Such statues are extremely rare in Asia Minor. Only a dozen still survive,” team leader Francesco D’Andria, …

That İstanbul is a real treasure chest for history, art and architecture freaks is no secret. Its colorful mosaic of historical city structures — mosques, churches, synagogues, palaces, castles and towers — reflects the many, many social and cultural influences of a number of foreign communities that have left their indelible footprints across the city throughout its long history.
The oldest settlement on the land that is now İstanbul was, however, Greek.
Already, in 685 B.C., settlers from the ancient Greek town of Megara chose to colonize the town of Chalcedon, in …

An archaeological excavation has started near Lake Küçükçekmece in Avcılar to uncover the ancient city of Bathonea, which is estimated to be 1,600 years old.
Dr. Şengül Aydıngün from Kocaeli University explained that an ancient city had been found after they had conducted surface research in Yarımburgaz, the oldest settlement area in the Küçükçekmece basin.
Speaking to the press, Aydıngün, head of the Istanbul Prehistoric Research (İTA) Project, said they had found out about the ancient port, located 20 kilometers away from Byzantium (old İstanbul), during research conducted last year into historic …

The oldest discovered parliament building in human history will soon house the heads of the world’s parliaments.
Once the on-going restoration works of the building are completed, the head of Turkey’s parliament will host the gathering of the international parliamentarians, the Milliyet newspaper reported today.
The antique parliament building is located in the ancient town of Patara, near the modern town of Kaş in Turkey’s Antalya province. Dating to the second century BC, the structure has a capacity of 1,455 people.
The site was used for parliamentary assembly by the Lycian League – …

Excavations led by a University of Toronto archaeologist at the site of a recently discovered temple in South-Eastern Turkey have uncovered a cache of cuneiform tablets dating back to the Iron Age period between 1200 and 600 BCE. Found in the temple’s cella, or ‘holy of holies’, the tablets are part of a possible archive that may provide insights into Assyrian imperial aspirations.
The assemblage appears to represent a Neo-Assyrian renovation of an older Neo-Hittite temple complex, providing a rare glimpse into the religious dimension of Assyrian imperial ideology,” says Timothy …

A letter scratched into a clay tablet reveals a desperate plea for reinforcements that came just too late. Alone, petrified and facing almost certain death, the ancient Assyrian leader Mannu-ki-Libbali scrawled a call for help to his commander, but his cry for extra troops came too late.

Soon after it was sent, the ancient city of Tushan was overrun by Babylonian invaders, its temples and palaces pillaged, then torn down or set aflame.
The letter, scratched into a clay tablet in 630BC, may never have reached its intended recipient. But more than …

A team of archaeologists has discovered a castle and an ancient city thought to be almost 1,400 years old in southern Osmaniye province in Turkey.
According to a report in Today’s Zaman, excavations in the area, carried out by teams from Kocaeli University’s archaeology department with the permission of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, first revealed the ruins in 2006.
Associate Professor Fusun Tulek said that the castle and the ancient city were surrounded by city walls and that they have found ceramic pieces.
“We found Umayyad ceramics dating back to the …