Hadrian

Artifacts unearthed during excavations at the ancient city of Sagalassos in the southern province of Burdur's Ağlasun district and put on display at the Burdur Archaeology Museum draw thousands of visitors every year.

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Artifacts unearthed during excavations at the ancient city of Sagalassos in the southern province of Burdur's Ağlasun district and put on display at the Burdur Archaeology Museum draw thousands of visitors every year.

The statue of a Roman emperor, which was found during archaeological excavations in Laodicea ancient city in the western province of Denizli last year, will be put on display at the Hierapolis Archaeology Museum soon.

The statue is a one and only in the world in terms of its symbols and features.

The ancient city of Hadrianopolis, estimated to have been used as a settlement area in late Hellenistic, Rome and early Byzantine times, will become an archeological site.

Located at some three kilometers east of Turkey's Black Sea province of Karabük, the site is also called "Zeugma of the Black Sea," due to its similarity with Zeugma mosaics in southeastern province of Gaziantep.

An ancient slab dating back around 1,800 years was unearthed in Turkey's northern Karabük province.

The limestone slab that had a silhouette of a woman on it was found during excavation works in the ancient city of Hadrianopolis - now located 3 kilometers east of the Eskipazar district of the Karabük province.

In cooperation with the Italian Archaeological School at Athens, the National Archaeological Museum presents "Hadrian and Athens: Conversing with an Ideal World," a temporary exhibition in the Sculpture Collection's Gallery 31A through November 29. Marking 1,900 years since the beginning of Hadrian's Principate in AD 117, the exhibition highlights his immense and enduring legacy.

Plovdiv, the second-largest city in Bulgaria, is getting ready to cement its status on the European city break circuit as one of two European capitals of culture for 2019, according to CNN.  (The other is the rocky city of Matera, Italy.)

The National Archaeological Museum presents "Hadrian and Athens: Conversing with an Ideal World," an exhibition marking 1,900 years since the beginning of Hadrian's Principate in AD 117. The show aims at highlighting the Roman emperor's immense enduring legacy in Greece, but also how he contributed to forging many of the cornerstones of Western culture.

The National Archaeological Museum presents "Hadrian and Athens: Conversing with an Ideal World," an exhibition marking 1,900 years since the beginning of Hadrian's Principate in AD 117. The show aims at highlighting the Roman emperor's immense enduring legacy in Greece, but also how he contributed to forging many of the cornerstones of Western culture.

Emperor, philhellene, globe-trotter and superstar, a fan of the arts who nonetheless liked to live modestly, spending a lot of time with his soldiers, Hadrian (AD 76-138) was without doubt a restless spirit and a multifaceted personality who is seen as an instrumental factor in the osmosis between the ancient Greek and Roman civilizations.