Read more about the article Appeal To Protect Rare Dolmens Dating Back Thousands Of Years As Treasure Hunters Plunder Them Daily
The 3500-year-old dolmens are damaged over the years by the excavations and destructions of the treasure hunters in the Thrace region in Turkey. (Newsflash)
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Appeal To Protect Rare Dolmens Dating Back Thousands Of Years As Treasure Hunters Plunder Them Daily

Experts are appealing for these rare dolmens dating back thousands of years to be protected claiming that treasure hunters are plundering them daily. The 3,500-year-old dolmens, which are structures made of large flat stones placed on vertical stones that were typically used as tombs and places of ritual worship, has…

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February 26, 2022
Read more about the article Criminals Busted Trying To Sell Ancient Hebrew Manuscript On Black Market For GBP 16,000
A historical Hebrew manuscript was seized by the police when it was about to be sold in Diyarbakir, Turkey. (Diyarbakir Valiligi/Newsflash)
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Criminals Busted Trying To Sell Ancient Hebrew Manuscript On Black Market For GBP 16,000

Police in Turkey have busted three people suspected of trying to sell this ancient, jewel-studded Hebrew manuscript on the black market for just GBP 16,000. The incident took place in the Peyas neighbourhood of the Kayapinar district in the city of Diyarbakir in south-eastern Turkey's Diyarbakir province. The footage was…

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February 16, 2022
Read more about the article Turkish Archaeologists Who Discovered Ancient Toilet That Could Be Used By 13 People Have Now Found 2,000-Year-Old Passage
Turkish archaeologists discovered a latrine, a communal toilet facility at a theatre over 2,000 years old in the ancient city of Smyrna, located within the borders of the modern city of Izmir, Turkey, in 2021. (Izmir Buyuksehir Belediyesi/Newsflash)
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Turkish Archaeologists Who Discovered Ancient Toilet That Could Be Used By 13 People Have Now Found 2,000-Year-Old Passage

Archaeologists who discovered a U-shaped toilet that could easily be used by 13 people at once in an ancient theatre in Turkey have now found a 2,000-year-old passage that served as an entrance to the same theatre. The passage, known as a 'vomitorium', is 26 metres long, L-shaped and was…

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February 2, 2022
Read more about the article Experts Bid To Restore Seven Nazi Enigma Machines From World War II Recovered From Bottom Of The Sea
Rare Nazi Enigma machine found by WWF divers. (Christian Howe, Submaris/Newsflash)
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Experts Bid To Restore Seven Nazi Enigma Machines From World War II Recovered From Bottom Of The Sea

An expert in Germany is working hard to restore seven Nazi enigma machines from World War II that were recovered by chance in the bottom of the sea, but it could take four years before they go on display. Corinna Mayer, 42, is an expert restorer and she has prescribed…

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January 30, 2022
Read more about the article Remains Of Aborted Babies And Man Who Met Violent End Found In 16th Century Mexican Hospital
Remains of unborn children and pregnant women found in Hospital de San Roque, in Puebla. (INAH/Newsflash)
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Remains Of Aborted Babies And Man Who Met Violent End Found In 16th Century Mexican Hospital

Archaeologists working on a 16th-century hospital in Mexico have discovered several human remains including pregnant women, their unborn children and at least one man who met a violent death. Archaeologists from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) have been accompanying restoration works on the Hospital of San Roque…

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January 26, 2022