Limantepe

The İzmir Archeology Museum has put on display a 5,000-year-old historical limestone stele, depicting the silhouette of a praying person, and a 4,000-year-old terracotta pottery with a human face on it, belonging to the Early Bronze Age.

A Roman ancient city, discovered during one of the world's most important archaeology projects, the Liman Tepe excavations, is set to serve as an archeopark after excavations end.   

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

A new step has been taken in ?zmir?s Urla district to boost Turkey?s position in underwater archaeology and to conduct studies on underwater cultural richness, with the opening of the Ankara University Mustafa Vehbi Koç Marine Archaeology Research Center on June 17.