Turkey
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From Today’s Zaman: A winged seahorse brooch, one of the most precious pieces in the Croesus Treasure, which was stolen from a museum in Turkey in 2005 and recently found in Germany, was returned to Turkey on Wednesday. In November of last year, then-Culture and Tourism Minister Ertuğrul Günay announced that the famed brooch had…
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Wow … no sooner does Hurriyet mention it and the Dallas MoFA returns it … from the Star-Telegram: The Dallas Museum of Art has returned an ancient mosaic to Turkish officials after discovering it was stolen. The mosaic was returned to Turkish officials at a ceremony Monday in Dallas. Museum officials also launched an international…
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One that was languishing in my email box … from Today’s Zaman: The excavation of the Kerkenez ruins in the Central Anatolian province of Yozgat have revealed the original city walls dating back to the fourth century B.C. The excavation was carried out due to support from the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the…
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Tip o’ the pileus to A.K. Eyma for passing along this item from Leiden University: Linguists Alwin Kloekhorst and Alexander Lubotsky from Leiden University made a great discovery this summer. They deciphered a few dozen inscriptions on pot shards found in Daskyleion (North-West Turkey) as Phrygian and Lydian, and thus proved the presence of the…
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This one’s interesting, given that we were pondering the origins of that sarcophagus in the sea near Antalya t’other day … from the Local: A Roman sarcophagus, believed to have been excavated illegally from an archaeological site close to Turkey’s Antalya, has been seized by authorities from a Swiss warehouse, a customs official said on…
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