Silk, the yarns, and textiles made with filaments of the cocoons of several species of moth (especially the Bombyx mori, which feeds on white mulberry leaves and was cultivated in ancient China). Silk cloths from the Far East reached the Mediterranean already in Roman times, and raw silk and silk yarns imported from China, Central […]
Konya Archeology Museum The archeology museum has been opened for the first time in the building that is at the southwestern corner of Karma Secondary School in 1901. In 1927, the works have been moved to Mevlana Museum and in 1953 to Iplikci Mosque for the exhibition. In 1962, today’s museum has been established and […]
In the autumn of 1945, a research team from Istanbul University traced the ancient caravan routes through the passes of the Toros Mountains in search of Hittite sites. The team was led by Professor Dr. Helmut Th. Bossert and included Dr. Halet Cambel. At Feke, a small town in the Toros over a hundred kilometers […]
The town of Didim is one of the prettiest in Turkey’s southwestern province of Aydin. As you enter the seaside town an imposing monument can be seen rising towards the clouds like a mountain peak. This is the Temple of Apollo, a god with Anatolian roots associated with light, music, and prophecy. He was the […]
Date: 6200 BC Location: Konya, Turkey The human activity of graphically translating one’s perception of his world is now generally recognized as a universally acquired skill and one that pre-dates virtually all other forms of written communication. Set in this pre-literate context and subjected to the ravages of time, the identification of any artifact as “the […]
The friendship between Turkey and Australia was strengthened by the incongruous conflict between these two nations during the so-called Great War of 1914-1918. This, of course, was not a battle over territory or ethnic difference. There was no historical reason to cause one party to hate the other. The Turks were defending their territory. The […]
Hagia Sophia, Topkapi Palace, and the Blue Mosque are the sights that first come to mind when visiting Istanbul. But, there is so much else to see that a few days or even weeks would not suffice for them all. Among them, the Istanbul Archaeological Museum is one that should not be missed. It contains […]
The analysis made on Roman gladiators bones buried in Ephesus shows that they might have been vegetarians, according to the news published in Plos One. In a study by the Department of Forensic Medicine at the Medical University of Vienna in cooperation with the Department of Anthropology at the Institute of Forensic Medicine at the […]
Since the Bronze Age that the first deadly weapons hammered out until these days; heaps of legions passed over Anatolia and moved to the west or the east. Original inhabitants, who used to live in the Cappadocia region in the heart of Anatolia, carved the caves into the Cappadocia’s soft tufa rocks and dug underground […]
The Seven Churches of Revelation (Asia Minor) St. John recorded letters to the Seven Churches in Asia, as part of Revelation, the last book of the Bible. Exiled on the island of Patmos as he saw visions and recorded them, he must have longed to be able to visit the churches in person to deliver […]
