Ahmet Cem Erkman

International interest in Anatolian fossils discovered in Kırşehir's Kurutlu village

Academics from Germany, United States, Spain and Switzerland have shown great interest in fossils, dating back seven to eight million years ago, of vertebrate animals such as elephants, giraffes, rhinoceroses and cats. The fossils had been discovered in the ongoing archaeological excavations in the Kurutlu village of the central Anatolian province of Kırşehir's Kaman district.

Project to reveal central Anatolian history

A project starts retrieval excavations after a group of academics discovered rhino, giraffe and elephant bones on the Savcılı coast of the Lake Hirfanlı in Kırşehir After rhino, giraffe and elephant bones were found during a surface survey in the Hirfanlı Dam Lake, excavations have been initiated in the area.