The annual art fair Contemporary İstanbul (Cİ) wrapped up its landmark 10th edition with record admission numbers, its organizers announced on Monday. The fair was seen by 84,000 art lovers and connoisseurs over five days, which also included an invitation-only preview on Nov. 11. Link

This year's İstanbul International Book Fair attracted some 558,000 visitors to the TÜYAP Fair Center in Beylikdüzü throughout its nine-day run, organizers announced on Sunday evening as the fair wrapped up its 34th edition. Link1 Link2

The cultural assets of the eastern province of Diyarbakır have been listed as a result of work initiated in 2009 by the Diyarbakır Museum. The city is famous for its historical walls, mosques, churches, inns, houses, fortress, bridge and bazaars. Link

A lost island where the ancient city of Kane was located has been found by geo-archaeologists in the Aegean province of İzmir’s Dikili district. The island was mentioned in ancient sources. Link1 Link2

Excavations in the ancient city of Anavarza, located in the southern province of Adana, have unearthed new city walls from the 8th and 9th centuries. Head of the excavations, Çukurova University Archaeology Department Assistant Professor Fatih Gülşen said works had been continuing with a team of 40 people and the new walls were discovered during cleaning work around the excavation field. Link

Turkey’s only Osteoarchaeology Application and Research Center continues to shed light on Istanbul’s past thanks to the large number of animal fossils and others that were discovered during the Marmaray diggings. Link

Roman-era floor mosaics unearthed during illegal excavations in the southern province of Osmaniye were rescued from smugglers in a police operation. Adana and Osmaniye security forces, which were informed about an illegal excavation in the village of Kayalı, carried out an extensive operation in five different places and seized the Roman era floor mosaics. Link1 Link2

“The Australian team has uncovered the oldest theater on Cyprus: a structure that was used as a venue for performance and spectacle for over six-and-a-half centuries from 300 B.C. until its final destruction in the earthquakes of A.D. 365,” said the statement. Link

Producing forged sculptures is one of the most common methods of fraud for swindlers. Some of the sculptures were on display in museums, while others were seized by the police. The Culture and Tourism Ministry has seized hundreds of fake artifacts over the last five months. Link

In one of the largest ancient cities in the western province of Denizli, Laodicea, the columns of a portico structure, which collapsed during an earthquake in 494, have been unearthed after more than 15 centuries. Link