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Across the ancient world, falling irretrievably into debt was to enter into bondage to the rich. For millenia, the poor typically had no collateral for loans beyond their bodies and their labo. Aristotle said that the “poor… were enslaved by the rich.”

Göbeklitepe, the site of the world?s oldest temple, may be the home of the first pictograph, according to a scene etched into an obelisk A scene on an obelisk found during excavations in Göbeklitepe, a 12,000-year-old site in the southeastern province of ?anl?urfa, could be humanity?s first pictograph, according to researchers.

A two-month excavation process will start next week in the ancient city of Soli Pompeipolis in Mersin's Mezitli. Its goal is to unearth the rest of a Roman street, which was unearthed in previous years This year's excavations will start next week in the ancient city of Soli Pompeipolis, located in the southern province of Mersin's Mezitli district. 

Two 2,800-year-old Urartian-era stelas found in the Patnos Brigade Command campus in the eastern province of Van have been transported to the Van Museum. 

A collection of returned items, now on show at Baghdad's national museum, is only a small part of antiquities that have disappeared due to ongoing theft and destruction Iraq celebrated July 8 the return of hundreds of historical artifacts, from an ancient Assyrian statue to a 20th century presidential tea set, which were looted, lost or loaned abroad over the recent decades. 

When you've been conducting archaeological excavations since 1854 and you've only revealed 3 percent of what is believed to lie beneath, either your priorities are elsewhere or your quarry is really quite large.

A structure that is believed to have been used as an ancient cold storage depot has been unearthed in the ancient city of Sagalassos in the southern province of Burdur's A?lasun district. 

Greece is in debt. It owes over 323 billion and counting! And as International Monetary Fund (IMF) Chief Christine Lagarde so rightly coined it… “a debt is a debt”. Of course, were it not for the ancient Greeks there may not have been anything to create debt with in the first place.

MATH

Best known for coal, the ground beneath the southern Anatolian district of Ermenek is continuing to reveal priceless artifacts from humanity's prehistoric era, as well as more recent ancient civilizations.

A Roman-era athlete and a hand holding a ball have been found during the foundation excavation of a construction in the western province of Mu?la's Milas district. 

Historical artifacts were unearthed last year in a third degree archaeological site on Atatürk Boulevard. Then salvage excavations initiated by the Milas Museum revealed sculptures underground.