Yeşilova Höyük

The oldest fig seeds ever found in Anatolia, dating back 5,000 years, have been unearthed in the Yassıtepe Mound in the Bornova district of İzmir, where excavations have been continuing.

A workshop dating back 8,200 years, showing the village life, pleasure, eating and drinking culture of the people of İzmir, has been unearthed in Yeşilova Mound in the Bornova district of İzmir.

In the western province of İzmir's Yeşilova Mound, archaeologists have recently discovered one of the earliest water channels in human history, dating back 8,200 years.

A 5,000-year-old marble idol has come to light during works carried out in the Yeşilova and Yassıtepe mounds in the Aegean province of İzmir's Bornova district.

Archaeological excavations carried out in the Yeşilova Mound, where the first settlers of the city lived in the Bornova district of İzmir, have unearthed 8,200-year-old stone cutting tools.

The Yassıtepe excavations that are ongoing at the Yeşilova Mound in the western Turkish province of İzmir have unearthed the ruins of 5,000-year-old structures, as well as "luxurious" residents at the time. 

Visitors have been flocking to İzmir's Yeşilova Mound, a site that proves that settlements in the city date back 8,500 years.

The head of the Yeşilova Mound excavations, academic Zafer Derin, told the Doğan News Agency that the mound had been visited by 36,000 people in two years.

Archaeological excavations on the Yassıtepe mound in İzmir's Bornova district have unearthed 5,000-year-old grape seeds that are believed to be the seeds of the Bornova Misket grape. 

The findings were put on display at the Yeşilova mound visitor center following a ceremony. 

The ancients of the Neolithic era 8,500 years ago might have been "painting the town red" a whole lot earlier than over-exuberant revelers of the 1800s, according to new findings from the Yeşilova Mound in İzmir, which suggest red was the favorite color of the prehistoric inhabitants and was used extensively.