Turkey has been around long before Biblical times were recorded. One pictures the molten earth still cooling, still softly bubbling along with the appearance of the first colonies of nomadic Turkish Tribes. Heaven only knows what lies buried beneath the sandy surface, patiently waiting to shock and awe the observer.
It is stunning the stuff that is found under existing cities. Can’t remember where but a story of a man selling fish, they discovered that he had found a passage to a subterranean lake under a modern city. If I remember correctly basically a valley was covered over by romans to have a city with water supply underneath. The pictures were amazing large pieces of carved statues and anything else the Roman’s could find to support the area above was used
Another point it is amazing how even relatively recent events understanding of what happened often turns out to be untrue
There is a show where folks go to battle fields ( the one I watched was on Gettysburg)and by metal detecting bullets noth used and unused were able to reconstruct battle positions and they don’t agree in many instances with recorded history
Was Spain and there was a discovered Roman settlement on a hill it was occupied to somewhere around the 700s yet was unknown till a few decades ago, walking down a cleared section of a road i got to where they had stopped excavation and there was 10-12 feet of earth and debris covering the road.
How does that much stuff accumulate esp on a hill top in such a relatively short time?
What is out there yet to be discovered I imagine is breathtaking
The archaeological finds on that land between the Black Sea and Western Med go incredibly deep.
The Turks came out of Central Asia about 500 years ago.