Archaeology of the Americas

The painted friezes of a 2,500-year-old wooden burial chamber that was found 48 years ago during illegal excavations in Afyonkarahisar will soon go on display following the construction of a new museum in the inner Aegean province.

A burial chamber has been unearthed in the Kayı village of the Daday district in the northern Turkish province of Kastamonu. 

The burial chamber is believed to have been built for a noble person named Paphlagonia who lived in the region up to 2,000 years ago.  

The "fate" or "milestone" of our story is at 6 p.m. on the sixth day of the sixth month of 1966. According to some, the numbers 666 are perceived as the "number of Satan." In Christianity, the number six also means bad luck because of some superstitions related to the day of Jesus Christ's death. 

A power plant company that holds the right to extract coal from a mine located under Turkey's Neolithic Seyitömer tumulus wants to halt excavations on the site for the sake of coal. 

The Seyitömer tumulus, located in the western province of Kütahya, could be sacrificed for coal from a mine lying underneath the tumulus.

Wall paintings of animal and human shapes, as well as geometric designs, have been found by researchers at the Dumlupınar University Archaeology Department in the 5,000-year-old Seyitömer burial mound