Pergamon

A 4,500-year-old marble goddess figure has been discovered during the surface surveys conducted in the Bakırçay Plain, located within the borders of the ancient city of Pergamon in the Bergama district of İzmir.

A budget of 1 billion Turkish Liras ($32.2 million) has been allocated to bring the cultural heritage of the ancient city of Pergamon into both the national and international arena, Culture and Tourism Minister Mehmet Nuri Ersoy has announced.

A Turkish engineer working in the U.S. has discovered the harbor of an ancient city underwater while diving off the Aegean province of İzmir's Dikili district, where he came for a summer vacation.

Denem Orhun, a 39-year-old engineer working for a music company in the U.S., came across round columns underwater while diving off the coast of Dikili a year and a half ago.

The results of a project on life in the ancient city of Pergamon (today's Bergama), which is on the UNESCO World Heritage List, 1,800 years ago have been presented to the international archaeological community through the New York University Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW).

Cevdet Erek's solo exhibition "Bergama Stereotip" opened on Feb. 26 at Istanbul's Arter Gallery, consisting of a sounding architecture conceived for the gallery space.

Curated by Selen Ansen, the exhibition takes the architecture and odyssey of the historical Great Altar of Pergamon as point of reference and reinterprets it.

Turkey's famous reed and baglama virtuoso, Ömer Faruk Tekbilek, says it is a gift from God that his team is made up of Greek, Armenian and Jewish musicians, as well as Turks. 

Synthesizing Eastern and Western melodies with folkloric and Sufi music in his works, Tekbilek is an internationally-acclaimed artist. 

The ancient city of Kane has been discovered by geo-archeologists in the Aegean province of Asia Minor. The lost island mentioned in ancient texts is believed to be the site where the famous battle of Arginusae took place between the Athenians and Spartans in the 406 century BC.

The ‘Sahaflar’ (used books) Bazaar has a history that stretches back into the days of New Rome, when the city was renamed Constantinople The “Sahaflar” (used books) Bazaar, nestled in the shadow of Beyazıt Mosque, has a long and for the most part honorable history that can be traced to Byzantine times.