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Roman Mosaic in Türkiye Reveals Rare Askania Personification After 11 Years Underground
When a sewer trench was cut into a quiet street in northwestern Türkiye back in 2014, workers briefly exposed part of a Roman mosaic floor before authorities ordered the area sealed. It was too risky to investigate at the time, and too little was visible to understand what lay beneath.Eleven years later, archaeologists from the…
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12,000-Year-Old Rock Engravings Discovered Beneath Türkiye’s Atatürk Dam Reveal One of the Oldest Hunting Scenes in the Euphrates Basin
Underwater Paleolithic panel shows humans and animals carved into an 8-meter rock surface Beneath the deep waters of Türkiye’s Atatürk Dam, archaeologists have rediscovered a series of Paleolithic rock engravings estimated to be at least 12,000 years old — an extraordinary survival from the dawn of symbolic human art in the Euphrates Basin. The site,…