Excavation

Excavation and restoration work has resumed in the ancient city of Sagalassos in the southern city of Burdur's Ağlasun district.

According to written sources, the history of Sagalassos dates back to 333 B.C. when it was conquered by Alexander the Great. The city had been one of the five most important ceramic production centers in the Roman era.

Koç University's Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED) has opened the exhibition "The Curious Case of Çatalhöyük," celebrating the 25th excavation season of the Çatalhöyük Research Project.

An excavation team that has been working at Çatalhöyük in Central Anatolia for decades has come the closest yet to solving some of the mysteries surrounding the Neolithic site's earliest structures, according to the head of the dig.

Excavation has begun at a former mosque site in Kosovska Mitrovica, on suspicion that a mass grave is located there.

The area that is being searched is cordoned off with the yellow police tape. Heavy building machines are being used to dig up the soil.

Excavation works being conducted on the Kızıl Church, also known as the Virgin Mary Church, have unearthed a 165-year-old inscription. 

According to information released by Elazığ Municipality, continuing surveying and resto-ration project works on the 19th-century Kızıl Church have unearthed an Armenian inscrip-tion dating back to 1851 that measures 80 by 53 centimeters.

Limantepe is the first underwater center in Turkey.  Excavation have been carried out in spots between Karantina Island and Urla Harbor.

Fossils in Çank?r? province have been coming to light since 1997 thanks to delicate works carried out by students from different universities Excavation work at the fossil site in the Central Anatolian province of Çank?r? has been ongoing for many years with the contribution of university students, using a special needle called ?biz.? 

Excavation work has started for the summer season at one of the six largest cities of the Lycian Union, the ancient city of Xanthos, located in the southern province of Antalya's Ka? district. 

The ancient site has entered the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage List along with 15 other historical artifacts.

Excavation and cleaning works on the largest underground city in the world in the Central Anatolian province of Nev?ehir have unearthed equipment and life spaces belonging to various civilizations.

Excavation work has begun in the Ahlat Seljuk graveyard, considered the "Orkhon Inscriptions of Anatolia," in the eastern province of Bitlis. It is known as the world's largest Turkish-Islam graveyard. 

The site has 8,203 gravestones, the tallest of which are some 4.5 meters, and many are artifacts decorated with inscriptions and motifs.