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History lies at bottom of Black Sea
Historical artifacts discovered during the first scientific underwater excavations in the Black Sea, carried out in Kerpe Bay, once again reveal the hidden cultural treasure of the region, known as "Kalpe" in history.
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First Zen monastery in Greece in the works
Konstantinos Sgoumpopoulos, a Zen abbot as well as shipping and real estate businessman, talks to Kathimerini about the first Zen monastery to be built in Greece and the wider region.
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Shipwrecks found off Kasos
The discovery of 10 shipwrecks as well as important individual finds has been announced after the completion in October last year of underwater archaeological research in the maritime area of Kasos island, in the southeast Aegean.
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New Samsun Museum ready for opening
The New Samsun Museum, which is conceptually rare in the world, being home to the Amisos Treasure, considered the most valuable in Türkiye after the Karun Treasure, as well as a skull with traces of a 5,000-year-old brain surgery, will open tomorrow.
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Archaeologists discover 8600-year-old bread at Çatalhöyük
Archaeologists have discovered nearly 8,600-year-old bread in the Çatalhöyük Neolithic settlement, one of the first places of urban settlement in the world in central Anatolian province of Konya. The site was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2012.
This ancient factory helped purple reign
The most prized pigment of antiquity was processed not from a tangle of root or the frothy extract of a weed, but by drawing out a slimy secretion from the mucus glands behind the anus of murex sea snails - "the bottom of the bottom-feeders," historian Kelly Grovier has written.
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Child graves and figurines found in ancient Tenedos
Many child graves have been unearthed during the excavations carried out last year in the necropolis area of the ancient city of Tenedos, located in the Bozcaada district of Çanakkale.
The area is a tourism center visited by nearly 50,000 local and foreign tourists every year.
Historic Maiden's Tower reopens to visitors
After the completion of the restoration work of the The Maiden's Tower, one of the symbolic buildings of Istanbul, which started in 2021, the historical structure will be reopened to visitors on March 1.
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Claros Sanctuary excavations continue
Excavations at Claros Sanctuary have been the longest-running excavations ongoing under Ege University's Archaeology Department, says excavation head Associate Professor Onur Zunal, while shedding light on how Claros emerged as a prophecy center in the past.
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Archaeologists found a mind-blowing cluster of ancient lost civilizations
Whatever people occupied this area, they likely thrived from around 500 BC until somewhere between 300 and 600 AD