Fireplaces

Archaeologists have discovered nearly 8,600-year-old bread in the Çatalhöyük Neolithic settlement, one of the first places of urban settlement in the world in central Anatolian province of Konya. The site was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2012.

A 1,500-year-old bread oven structure has been discovered during ongoing excavations in the ancient city of Perre, one of the five largest cities of the Kingdom of Commagene.

Nova Gorica – Gostol Gopan, a Nova Gorica-based company that makes industrial ovens and equipment for large bakeries, has announced that it shipped the largest thermal oil baking oven they have ever built. It was sold to one of Europe’s largest bakeries from Hungary. This thermal oil baking oven made by Gostol Gopan is 3 metres wide, 17 metres long and 5.3 metres high.

A 56-year-old man has moved with his family to a wooden house built inside a truck in protection against the novel coronavirus pandemic.

Ömer Birinci, who lives in the Black Sea province of Trabzon, built the 20-square-meter house inside the truck as there is a ban on building in the city's highlands.

The remains of two tile furnaces have been found in archaeological excavations in İznik, known as a historic center of tile production in the northwestern Turkish province of Bursa. 

Officials have initiated work to unearth the furnaces, which date back to the 14th and 17th centuries. 

The second blast furnace at the Smederevo steel mill has been restarted, Tanjug reported on Thursday.

Both furnaces now in operation and the first quantities of steel expected to start flowing in two days, the plant's manager Peter Kamaras said.

Firebox has launched Nudee, a service that uses ‘some very futuristic 3D-print technology’ to ‘carve every crevice of your delicate dome’ and place it on one of the six almost naked body types.

After four years, the second blast furnace in the Zelezara Smederevo steel mill was fired up on Friday.

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