Stones

Three grave stele fragments have come to light during the ongoing excavations by the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Heritage team in the Saraçhane Archeology Park.

Sharing the details, Mahir Polat, the deputy secretary general of the municipality, said, "We are happy to gain a very special series to the Istanbul Archaeology Museums."

It was discovered in the summer of 2017: a marble slab with an inscription in Greek, embedded in the concrete floor, beneath the old tiles being replaced by two cousins in their grandparents' home in Karacakoy, northwest of Istanbul. "All we could make out was the date," one of the cousins, Kerem Soyyilmaz, tells Kathimerini. He took a photo of the slab and sent it to a Greek friend.

The İzmir Archeology Museum has put on display a 5,000-year-old historical limestone stele, depicting the silhouette of a praying person, and a 4,000-year-old terracotta pottery with a human face on it, belonging to the Early Bronze Age.

A 1,900-year-old grave stele (stone) has been discovered during the excavations carried out in Parion, an important ancient port city near the Kemer Village in the northwestern province of Çanakkale's Biga district.

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Archaeological excavations continue in the ancient city of Parion, which sheds light on the region's 2,700-year-old history.

Following the discovery of some late Roman period embossed steles and a lid of a sarcophagus with a lion engraved on a wall fountain in a yard of a village mosque in the Mediterranean province of Antalya's Korkuteli district, authorities have launched a comprehensive investigation in the village.

Three men are expected to appear before a prosecutor after their arrest near Athens on Tuesday for illegal possession of an ancient marble grave stele.
The three suspects - aged 44, 43 and 36 - had hidden the Hellenistic era stele in an olive grove in the suburb of Spata, east of Athens.

A fashion show showcasing clothes with designs of figures of animals drawn tens of thousands of years ago on the steles of Göbeklitepe, a UNESCO World Heritage site, will take place on April 17. 

Egypt renewed its request for the British Museum to return the prized Rosetta stone to its country of origin.

All know that Delphi is the navel or "omphalos" of the earth where long ago the eagles released by Zeus met after circling the planet in flight. Few know that, putting down roots there amid the ruins, the Delphi Economic Forum is rising as Greece's answer to Davos.

A gravestone dating back almost 2,000 years, which a Roman-era man named Claudius Amiantus made for himself and the memory of his wife Iphigenia, is currently drawing great interest at the Archaeology Museum in the eastern province of Malatya. 

Gravestones from other periods in the region are also on display in the museum's garden.