Nemrut

Dry cargo ship runs ashore in Turkey's Çanakkale

A Turkish dry cargo ship ran ashore on a beach in the northwestern Turkish province of Çanakakle on June 18, Doğan News Agency has reported.

The ship reportedly set out from the port of Nemrut in the Aegean city of İzmir and was heading to the northwestern town of İzmit in Kocaeli province, when it ran ashore on the Sokakağzı Bay at around 1 a.m. on June 18. 

Nemrut's camels resisting time

The Camels of Nemrut, rock formations created with the eruption of Mount Nemrut in Bitlis' Tatvan district, try to resist time and human damage Rock formations created by an eruption of the volcanic Mount Nemrut in the eastern province of Bitlis' Tatvan district are in danger of being destroyed.

Mystery of Antiochus head still unsolved

Video footage, coincidentally found by a Turkish collector in a German flea market, which shows excavations on Mount Nemrut in 1965, as well as the life of locals in the region, has revealed a big scandal. The sculpted head of the King of Commagene, King Antiochus, which is now at the Gaziantep Zeugma Museum, was seized while being smuggled abroad by a German.

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