A 2,000-year-old Roman artefact has been found next to a dirt track in a rural Turkish village. The stone artefact with Latin text etched into it was discovered in the rural area of Cicekli near the city of Iznik in the north-western Turkish region of Bursa. The ancient artefact came…
Turkish villagers have reportedly stumbled across the remains of an eight-million-year-old woolly mammoth in a large sand pit. The mammoth remains were at the sand pit in the village of Buyukdolluk near the north-western Turkish city of Edirne near the border with Greece. Archaeology experts from Trakya University went to…
This Ancient Greek marble head has been found just five feet below the ground on an Athens square during construction works. The ancient sculpture was found on Agia Irini Square in the Greek capital Athens during building works on 14th November. Athens mayor Kostas Bakoyannis, 42, posted images on Facebook…
Vandals have reportedly wrecked a Stone Age cave in Turkey, painting over or smashing away wall paintings that were over 42,000 years old. The shocking vandalsim took place at Palanli Cave, an archaeological site near the village of Palanli in the district of Adiyaman in the Turkish province of the…
A Turkish locksmith has found a mysterious animal skeleton that he said all the experts he has consulted have been unable to identify in eight years. Abdullah Ozturk now showcases the mysterious skeleton at his shop in the town of Nigde in the southern Turkish province of the same name.…
