While archaeological excavations have done its fair share of tending to the historical legacy of ancient Greeks in modern-day Greece and western Anatolia, a significant…
Yet another fascinating discovery in Turkey, this time in the northwestern province of Çanakkale, has revealed quite a few toys are around 2,000 years old….
St. Nicholas, more popularly known as one of the major inspirations for Santa Claus, was probably a 4th-century Christian saint of Greek origin, who was…
Currently nestled around 1.9 miles southwest of present-day Selçuk in İzmir Province, Turkey, the ruins of Ephesus still attract their fair share of tourists and…
Amasra (derived from Greek Amastris) currently corresponds to an idyllic Black Sea port town in present-day Turkey’s Bartın Province. But hiding beneath this veneer of…
In the conventional scheme of things, Mesopotamia as a regional toponym relates to a conglomeration of areas from various modern-day nations, including Iraq, Syria and…
The famous site constituting the ancient Greek city of Perga in what is now Turkey’s Antalya province, has been the focus of numerous excavations and…
While a wide range of emoticons are often available at your disposal in the present-day electronic media, the human inclination towards ideograms goes back to…
Nicaea (corresponding to modern day Iznik), situated in a fertile basin at the eastern end of Lake Ascanius, was an important ancient city in the…
According to Turkish officials, a 2,000-year old ancient Roman bath located in Central Anatolian province of Yozgat is expected to be ‘revived’ for tourists via…
