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Roman Emperor Caracalla’s Letter Found Hidden in the Walls of a 1950s House in Turkey
In southwestern Turkey, a crumbling village house built in the 1950s has revealed an extraordinary secret: its walls are made of inscribed stones bearing a 1,800-year-old imperial letter from Roman Emperor Caracalla (r. AD 198–217).The discovery, made near the ancient city of Takina in Burdur’s Yeşilova district, turns what was once an ordinary home into…