A team of archeologists will make use of ground-based sensors to visualize the underground features of Isos. (Photo: Cihan)
Posted on 12/16/2011 6:24:29 PM PST by SunkenCiv
A team of archeologists has begun working on examining the site of the ancient city of Isos in southern Turkey by making use of ground-based sensors to visualize the underground features of the city's structures, the district governor has said... a team of four archeologists got to work at the reported site of the ancient city of Isos, which has been underground for some 500 years in the southern province of Hatay, as part of the work of unearthing the ancient city...
Approximately five months ago, excavations at the site where Isos is believed to be revealed ruins of baths and some Artemis mosaics. Hoping there are more mosaics or other materials that are valuable to shed light on the history of the city, archeologist Ömer Çelik.. filed a request with the Erzin district governor to survey the area and its underground features...the team is expected to finish its work in a week's time.
Speaking to the Cihan news agency, Çelik said: “While we were excavating in the area, we first discovered ruins of an ancient bath. Then we discovered mosaics in the bath tiles, which led us to think that there might be more mosaics or other kinds of stone that could give us clues about the time it was built or used.†Çelik added that they expect the discovery to reveal more about the history of Isos.
Once a significant trading city, Isos dates back to the year 2500 B.C. The area where the city was located was once part of the Byzantine, late Hittite, Persian and Ottoman civilizations.
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A team of archeologists will make use of ground-based sensors to visualize the underground features of Isos. (Photo: Cihan)
A team of archeologists has begun working on examining the site of the ancient city of Isos in southern Turkey by making use of ground-based sensors to visualize the underground features of the city's structures, the district governor has said... a team of four archeologists got to work at the reported site of the ancient city of Isos, which has been underground for some 500 years in the southern province of Hatay, as part of the work of unearthing the ancient city...
Approximately five months ago, excavations at the site where Isos is believed to be revealed ruins of baths and some Artemis mosaics. Hoping there are more mosaics or other materials that are valuable to shed light on the history of the city, archeologist Ömer Çelik.. filed a request with the Erzin district governor to survey the area and its underground features...the team is expected to finish its work in a week's time.
Speaking to the Cihan news agency, Çelik said: "While we were excavating in the area, we first discovered ruins of an ancient bath. Then we discovered mosaics in the bath tiles, which led us to think that there might be more mosaics or other kinds of stone that could give us clues about the time it was built or used." Çelik added that they expect the discovery to reveal more about the history of Isos.
Once a significant trading city, Isos dates back to the year 2500 B.C. The area where the city was located was once part of the Byzantine, late Hittite, Persian and Ottoman civilizations.
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As I was reading this article, it suddenly struck me how important baths were in ancient cities. Maybe that was the impetus of most civilization...getting clean and staying that way! Or, maybe it had to do with preventing illnesses.
“... Approximately five months ago, excavations at the site where Isos is believed to be revealed ruins of baths...”
I like the two comments to the article.
The structure in the picture should be from a later period, no?
There’s also a strong affinity for soakin’ the tired old bones, and with mineral water there’s generally no unseen submerged predators:
Pamukkale:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamukkale
pics of same:
http://www.google.com/images?q=pammukkale&sa=X&oi=image_result_group
Thanks IE!
Those are some serious comments, yeah. :’) The Armenians (sometimes) claim descent from the groups which fought against various ancient empires, such as the Assyrians; Urartu, Hurrians, and Carians (Khar, Kreti) would be in that ancestry or be related people. I’d have to have a look at the map beyond those remarks.
The aqueduct could be Roman in date, but could also be Byzantine in date. Artemis mosaics would indicate pagan Roman date (and probably early imperial period), and so chances are, that’s the same for the aqueduct.
Assyrian (? I’d have to look at the map), Late ‘Hittite’, Lydian (? I’d have to look at the map), Persian, Alexandrian/Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Arab, and Ottoman would be the correct order, and there may be some earlier and intervening I left out, my apologies.
Maybe it was because they liked getting "nekkid" together.
That would have been founded by the Selucids,if it was around that time period.Most Greek cities in Asia Minor and Syria were founded by them.
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