Bottles

In a new discovery made during ongoing excavations in the ancient city of Amos, which has a history of nearly 3,000 years and is famous for its rich cultural heritage in the western town of Marmaris, 10 amphorae (vessels with vertical handles) have come to light.

“I’m on this quest to dump out any water that gets trapped in plastic, because once it’s trapped in these plastic bottles, we have now lost it basically forever”

A Turkish grocery man, who chased the members of the world-famous rock band Arctic Monkeys away for throwing empty beer bottles in front of his shop, has made a coffee and apology talk offer to the British musicians.

The harvest of the second underwater exploration in the sea area of the southeastern Aegean island of Kasos was a rich one, with the discovery of four more ancient shipwrecks, after the five found in the first expedition.

The artifacts include amphorae from Spain to Greece

The EU Council today approved the introduction of new restrictions on certain disposable plastic products, reported Dnevnik.bg

Three people were arrested on Friday in the southern town of Kyparissia and charged with the  illegal possession of antiquities.

Police said they had received a tip off that the three suspects, 39, 41 and 61,were about to proceed with a pricey sale of around a dozen ancient amphorae and other vessels that served as funeral offerings in Mycenaean-era graves.

Farmer uses 3,500 plastic bottles to protect plants from cold in Turkey's Yozgat

Underwater research on the coast of the southern province of Mersin have discovered 18 shipwrecks on a coastline of 100 kilometers. The wreckages date back between 1,000 and 2,700 years.

Excavations in one of the most important coastal towns of the Hellenistic era, the ancient city of Parion in the northwestern Turkish province of Çanakkale's Biga district, have unearthed a 2,000-year-old feeding bottle.