How do you describe Ataturk? There are many words to describe him but briefly we can say great commander, wise stateman and a man of great vision. He was a…
Turkey; The land of Cultural Mozaics
Turkey is a country where you can come across various mosaics. Civilizations left us valuable heritage from past. Mosaics tell us different stories from the past. Most of them are…
Olive and Olive oil; Natural Treasure of Aegean Sea
Olive is the common good of all Mediterranean region. Also the inhabitants have been using olive and olive goods for centuries. Trade of olive was very important in ancient era.…
Hittite and Hattites Sun Disks
Sun was a power of life in earlier ages. So the civilizations considered as god. Hittites and Hattites prepared some figures that symbolized sun. One of the figures is exhibited…
Violence that belongs to 5000 years ago; The victim was a little girl
A grave was unearthed in Küllüoba ancient site of Central Anatolia. It is 5000 years old and it has a dramatic story. Archeologists found out that there are two skeletons…
Egyptian Queen was in Patara Ancient site
As I stated before, important civilizations such as Egyptians left us priceless heritage in this landscape. The last discovery is very exciting because a coin,that Egyptian queen Arsinoe II was…
Fortress of Bursa; A time capsule of history
Bursa is one of the ancient cities of Turkey. It had hosted many civilizations for centuries. Bythinia State was the first known important state which dominated the region. It had…
Çatalhöyük II: Earlier urban zone of History
We mentioned about the importance of Çatalhöyük ancient site before but the last results of this site excavation show us that there are more to talk on this site and…
Ankara; the capital of modern Turkish Republic
Although Ankara is the capital of modern Turkish Republic, Ankara is always on the shadow of Istanbul. Whenever we talk about Turkey, everyone remembers Istanbul firstly. It has some historical…
King Menua; An Urartu King that had its landscape constructed
King Menua was one of the well known Urartu kings because he had many monuments in Urartu land including Mesopotamia and Anatolia. He became king in 800 BC and he…