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A 2,500-year-old mausoleum in the southern province of Antalya has become the victim of vandalism.

Excavations in the ancient city of Letoon in the western province of Muğla's Seydikemer district have unearthed a nearly 2,600 year-old Egyptian seal used in the ancient Egyptian dynasty. The seal is said to have importance as it shows commercial relations between the ancient Egyptian and the ancient Lycian civilizations. 

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and his family came to Turkey on holiday last week. Johnson, his wife, and his four children secretly landed at the Dalaman airport and arrived at the Turkish resort in Muğla's Göcek via a gulet sailboat.

Johnson and his family visited the bays of Göcek, Dalyan, and Fethiye during the week and took a swim in the various Aegean bays.

The ancient city of Xanthos in the southern province of Antalya's Kaş district, known as the "city of sorrows," opens the door of a different world to its visitors both with its sad history and ruins that defy time. 

During official archaeological excavations that have been secretly carried out in the southern province of Antalya's Kaleiçi, an ancient Roman theater has been discovered under a school. 

During official archaeological excavations that have been secretly carried out in the southern province of Antalya's Kaleiçi, an ancient Roman theater has been discovered under a school. 

A growing number of tourists visiting Dalyan, a popular tourism center in the southwestern province of Muğla, are opting to join special "blue crab tours," during which they catch, learn about, and then release blue crabs. 

The cross of a 12th century Byzantine chapel, located outside the ancient city of Myra in the southern province of Antalya, has reportedly been stolen. 

Demre District Governor Murat Uz said an investigation has been opened into the theft, and they believe the 20-centimeter long marble cross was stolen in the last three or four days. 

Right opposite to the Greek island of Kastelorizo, some meters away from the shores of the Turkish town of Kaş, the Turks display tanks of its army at…the bottom of the sea!

That’s right! One can scuba dive, visit and take pictures of a M-48 US-made Main Battle Tank (MBT) that used to belong to the Turkish Marines, but sank due to some…miscalculation during a military exercise.

A 1960 model tank will be submerged 20 meters below the surface of the water off the coast of the Mediterranean seaside resort of Kaş in Turkey's Antalya province, to serve diving tourism, Doğan News Agency reported on May 20. 
The U.S.-made 45-ton tank was previously stored hundreds of kilometers away in the Central Anatolian province of Konya.