This year’s excavations at the ancient Aslantepe site in the eastern province of Malatya have unearthed an adobe throne, estimated to date back to some 5,000 years ago. The finding is very important according to the head of the excavations, Italian Professor Marcella Frangipane. Link1 Link2

Turkish baths, one of the best known features of Gaziantep, and their culture will be featured in a new museum opening soon in the southeastern province. The Paşa Bath, which was built in 1557 by Lala Mustafa Paşa, is being converted into a museum to show the culture of Turkish baths to visitors. Link

Members of the excavation team working at the ruins of Antioch of Pisidia in the western province of Isparta have staged a sit in at the ancient site to protest the brutal execution of their colleague, Syrian archaeologist Khalid al-Assad, at the hands of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants. Link1 Link2

Organizers of Turkey's annual Lake Van International Film Festival announced that they “have to push back the fourth edition of the event,” which was set to open on Sept. 1, to a later date due to a recent surge in deadly terrorist attacks in the region. Link

An “accessible open area” is to be developed at the ancient site of Troy, located within the borders of the Tevfikiye village in Turkey’s northwestern province of Çanakkale. The current head of ongoing excavations at Troy, Professor Rüstem Aslan, held a press conference at the ancient site in which he said wooden tracks would be established for people to visit the ancient city without touching or damaging anything. Link

A marble block, considered the “water law” from 1,900 years ago, has been unearthed in the ancient city of Laodicea in the western province of Denizli.The block, which is 90 centimeters in length and 116 centimeters in width, has revealed the use of water in the city had been managed by law, which involved a penalty ranging from 5,000 to 12,500 denarius. Link

Turkey's SAHA foundation, established by a group of art lovers to support the country's contemporary art movements, has recently announced its new list of non-profit art initiatives that received the group's Grant for the Sustainability of Independent Art Initiatives 2015-16. Link

Excavations in the ancient city of Kibyra in the southern province of Burdur’s Gölhisar district have unearthed a 1,800-year-old bath. The bath is said to be from the Roman era and is 5,400 square meters. Link

Amid excavations at four different ancient sites in the Central Anatolian province of Yozgat, a cuneiform tablet has been unearthed in the Uşaklı Mound at the Büyük Taşlık village. Thought to date back to around 2,000 B.C., the cuneiform tablet in the Sorgun district of Yozgat shows symbols of Ishtar, known as the Hittite goddess of love, war, fertility and sexuality, more clearly than those on any other unearthed tablets. Link

The ancient theater of Aspendos, which was closed to art events in 2008 to prevent damage, was recently reopened after a restoration process. Aspendos Theater will host four events in September and October. But civil engineers are worried about a sound system that may damage the theater. Link