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Ancient gold crown seized from smugglers

4 March 2018 | Archaeo Feed
Ancient gold crown seized from smugglers

Turkish Police’s Anti-Smuggling and Organized Crime Branch has seized a 2200-year old gold crown and silver bowl  in Istanbul during a hotel raid against historical artefact smugglers. 

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Ancient sarcophagus found at construction site

4 March 2018 | Archaeo Feed
Ancient sarcophagus found at construction site

An ancient sarcophagus, dating back 2000 years, has been unearthed at a construction site of a high school in Istanbul’s Kadıköy district.

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Police seizes nearly 2000 stolen artefacts

27 February 2018 | Archaeo Feed
Police seizes nearly 2000 stolen artefacts

Turkish Police has seized around 1981 historical artefacts dating back to the Roman and Byzantine periods were seized during an anti-smuggling operation in Istanbul’s Çekmeköy district.

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Huge Police raid on artefact smugglers

19 February 2018 | Archaeo Feed
Huge Police raid on artefact smugglers

Turkish Police has seized 26456 smuggled artefacts in the biggest operation against artefact smugglers spanning through four cities.

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Ancient human remains discovered at Istanbul metro construction site

8 September 2017 | Archaeo Feed
Ancient human remains discovered at Istanbul metro construction site

Human remains dating back to between 1200-800 BC have been unearthed by construction workers at the site of a new metro project connecting Istanbul’s Kabataş-Beşiktaş-Mecidiyeköy-Mahmutbey districts.

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Road works unearth ancient sarcophagus

20 May 2017 | Archaeo Feed
Road works unearth ancient sarcophagus

Construction workers unearthed an ancient sarcophagus during road works in the Tuzla district of Istanbul, Turkey.

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Ancient church unearthed during construction works

17 May 2017 | Archaeo Feed
Ancient church unearthed during construction works

Construction workers in Istanbul, Turkey, unearthed the remains of a 1500-year-old church on the Asian shore of the Bosporus, during infrastructure works by Istanbul Water and Sewerage Administration.

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Three people arrested for selling artefacts in Istanbul

3 April 2017 | Archaeo Feed
Three people arrested for selling artefacts in Istanbul

Three people, including a foreign national were arrested by Turkish Police in Istanbul for allegedly selling 121 historical artefacts.

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Byzantine artefacts seized in Istanbul by Police

1 March 2017 | Archaeo Feed
Byzantine artefacts seized in Istanbul by Police

Officers of the Istanbul Police Department have detained a man over illegal excavation in the city’s historical Sultanahmet neighborhood. Numerous Byzantine and pre-Byzantine artefacts were confiscated.

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Hundreds of ancient small bottles discovered in Istanbul

19 October 2016 | Archaeo Feed
Hundreds of ancient small bottles discovered in Istanbul

Excavations at Istanbul’s Avcılar district unearthed hundreds of unguentaria – small ceramic or glass bottles – containing traces of antidepressants and heart medications. The find was made at the site of ancient Greek city of Bathonea.

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Possible burial place of sultan Suleiman I found in Hungary

22 June 2016 | Archaeo Feed
Possible burial place of sultan Suleiman I found in Hungary

Excavations by hungarian archaeologists from University of Pecs reveal that the ruins of an Ottoman-era mosque discovered in Szigetvar (South Hungary) might possibly be the resting place of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent.

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Ancient grave discovered in Istanbul

24 January 2016 | Archaeo Feed
Ancient grave discovered in Istanbul

A Roman-Byzantine grave was unearthed in Istanbul in the Istiklal Avenue.

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