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Ancient city in Amasra under excavation
« on: August 16, 2017, 09:19:49 am »

Ancient city in Amasra under excavation
8/11/2017 11:00:00 PM 

Featuring a museum full of numerous ancient artifacts, many of which were found by chance, the Amasra (Greek Amastris) district of the modern Turkish Bartın province on the Black Sea is conducting an excavation aimed at unearthing a 5,000-year-old ancient city.
 
Amasra's coast was host to four small Ionian colonies - Sesamos, Kytoros, Kromna and Tion - and are mentioned by Homer in the Iliad. The area derived its name from Amastris, the niece of the last Persian king Darius III, who was the wife of Dionysius, tyrant of Heraclea, and after his death the wife of Lysimachus. As a result, the artifacts found during the excavation carry the traces of a 5,000-year-old history. With the permission of the General Directorate of Cultural Heritage and Museums and the support of local administrative bodies, many pieces belonging to the Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Genoese and Ottoman periods have been found at the site. The new excavations at Sesamos, under the presidency of the district's Amasra Museum Directorate, have been particularly exciting for archaeologists.

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