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Rare “Good Shepherd” Fresco Unearthed in a Painted Tomb at İznik, One of Christianity’s Historic Centers
Long before modern pilgrims and popes found their way to its ancient streets, İznik—known worldwide by its classical name, Nicaea—was a meeting point of religions and empires. Now, the city has offered a new insight into its Christian past: archaeologists have uncovered an exceptionally rare Good Shepherd depiction inside a painted hypogeum tomb, a motif…
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A Chance Encounter in Central Turkey Reveals Neolithic Rock Art Hidden for Millennia
The figures were almost invisible—faded shapes clinging to a cliff in the highlands of central Turkey. A hiker, pausing to catch his breath on a steep slope, noticed something that should not have been there: deliberate lines, human forms, a pattern emerging from the rock itself. That moment of curiosity has now opened a new…