• Museum to bring Trojan treasures back

    Turkey will soon welcome back some of the priceless treasures of Troy from countries scattered around Europe following the completion of a museum to house the artifacts in the ancient city in the country’s northwest. Located in Tevfikiye village, the Troy Museum is set to be finished by the end of next year. The ancient city receives more than 500,000 visitors every year. Link

  • 05 Jul, 2015

  • Last Northern Anatolian amphitheater to be unearthed

    The last amphitheater of the northern Anatolian region will be unearthed in an excavation in Turkey’s province of Tokat. The amphitheater is located just east of the historic castle of Zile, a city with a long Roman history and battle that prompted Roman Emperor Julius Caesar’s famous phrase, “veni, vidi, vici” Link

  • 04 Jul, 2015

  • Kuruçeşme home to late Ottoman remains

    Archaeological excavations carried out for the restoration of Kuruçeşme facilities in Istanbul has unearthed many historical artifacts from the late Ottoman era. Among the findings are the remains of a bath and laundry as well as aqueducts. Link

  • 25 Jun, 2015

  • Fossils in Cappadocia to live on in geo-park

    A geo-park is set to be built in Cappadocia to display fossils that were unearthed during construction by the Housing Development Administration (TOKİ) last year in the Central Anatolian province of Nevşehir’s Gülşehir and Ürgüp districts. Link

  • 25 Jun, 2015

  • Ancient businessman becomes "honorary member"

    Opramoas, a businessman who lived in the ancient city of Rhodiapolis in the southern province of Antalya’s Kumluca district in the 2nd century A.D. and was known as an important civic benefactor, has become a “honorary member” of the Antalya Industrialists and Businessmen Association (ANSİAD) upon the application of Professor Nevzat Çevik. Link

  • 24 Jun, 2015

  • Osman Hamdi Bey Museum closed to tourism

    The mansion where archaeologist, painter and Turkey’s first museum pioneer Osman Hamdi Bey lived for some time in the Aegean province of Muğla’s Yatağan district is closed, drawing reaction from locals. Link

  • 21 Jun, 2015

  • Turkey’s first museum of play to open in Ataşehir

    İstanbul will be home to the country's first museum of play when the Düştepe Museum and Park is inaugurated this week in the Ataşehir district.The museum, which will open on Tuesday inside the 50,000-square-meter Mimar Sinan Park in Ataşehir, was designed by poet Sunay Akın, who is also the founder and owner of the İstanbul Toy Museum in the Göztepe neighborhood. Link

  • 18 May, 2015

  • Ottoman Health Museum opens after renovation

    Trakya University’s European Museum Award-winning Sultan Bayezid II Külliye (social complex) Health Museum, located in the northwestern province of Edirne, has reopened after a one-and-a-half year restoration process. The restoration, sponsored by Turkish drug company Abdi İbrahim, had a cost of 2 million Turkish Liras. Link

  • 15 May, 2015