On the Turkish coast of the Black Sea, there is a Roman city called Pompeiopolis. Despite the name, it has nothing to do with the Pompeii buried by Vesuvius in 79 AD. This one takes its name from Pompey the Great, the Roman general who founded it in 64 or 63 BC as one of […]

Excavations led by the Mehmet Akif Ersoy University of Burdur (MAKÜ) at the archaeological site of the ancient Greek Kibyra, in southwestern Turkey, have brought to light fragments of four marble sculptures from the Roman era, including a complete representation of Emperor Hadrian, 2.14 meters tall, and another of his wife, Empress Sabina. The work, […]

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said after the first session that work was underway on a roadmap for other countries.

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A team of researchers from the Istanbul Technical University has used an innovative computational model to unravel the dynamics that allowed the legendary Neolithic city of Çatalhöyük, in present-day Turkey, to persist for more than a thousand years before undergoing a radical transformation. The results, published in the journal Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, […]

The excavations carried out on Street B of the archaeological complex of Side, on the Mediterranean coast of southern Turkey (founded by Greek colonists from Cyme, according to Strabo and Flavius Arrian), have concluded after uncovering a road axis approximately 390 meters long that preserves traces of its architectural evolution between the Roman period and […]

The Turkish Minister of Culture and Tourism, Mehmet Nuri Ersoy, has announced the discovery of an archaeological piece of singular value during the excavation work being carried out at the Karahantepe site, corresponding to the 2026 campaign. It is a composite sculpture, 70 centimeters in height, depicting a human figure seated on the back of […]