Nevzat Çelik

The Antalya Women's Museum is set to become Turkey's third women's museum following ones in Istanbul and ?zmir, having already launched a virtual museum online.

The hairstyles of ancient-era women, who lived 2,400 years ago, were the same as modern-era women, with some daring to be even more extraordinary Findings obtained during the Myra archaeological excavations carried out by Mediterranean University revealed Lycian women hairstyles 2,400 years ago were the same as today. 

This year's excavation works have begun in the ancient site of Myra and the Andriake Port situated in Demre district of Turkey's southern resort province of Antalya. 

Six of the most important ancient sites of the Lycian Union lie in this area, where excavations kicked off in 2009. 

The Santa Claus Museum in Antalya's Demre is the most visited place by tourists, especially the French, in the whole region. It is followed by the ancient city of Myra In the first nine months of 2014, 2.6 million Turkish and foreign people visited the ancient sites in the southern province of Antalya. It is expected that this figure reached 2.8 million by the end of the year.