Posted on 01/03/2006 11:17:59 AM PST by blam
Byzantine underground city and cistern unearthed in Talas
Tuesday, January 3, 2006
ANKARA - Turkish Daily News
An underground city and cistern dating to the Byzantine era have been discovered at the foot of Mt. Ali in the Talas district of Kayseri.
Talas Mayor Rýfat Yýldrým said archaeologists have so far unearthed 300 meters of the underground city and that the cistern is estimated to be 60 meters in length and 5 meters wide.
Noting that they had initiated excavations following reports of the existence of a city and cistern, Yýldýrým said: “We have unearthed parts of the underground city but must be very careful not to cause any damage. We have informed the Culture and Tourism Ministry, and studies will be initiated here in line with a project to be drawn up by the ministry.”
Archaeologist Gürcan Samet said they estimated the underground city and cistern to be around 1,300 years old. “We have identified two entrances and unearthed 300 meters. We think it extends beyond Kayseri's city center and the Gesi district. The walls and the cistern were made of horasan plaster [a mortar used during the Ottoman period composed of sand, lime, egg yolk and tar] and the water is of high quality.”
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I love archaeology :-)
Back when the land of Turkey was Christian...
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Thanks, Blam, as usual.
To me that's crummy reporting big time.
Do modern cities have cisterns? Old cities such as Constantinople did, but they had to be self-sufficient in case of siege.
too neat
I wish we could go back in time and just look!
Neat! Thanks FL.
But... but...!
Mindless muslim mass murderers are only a recent aberration!
I keep hearing that.
A minuscule percentage...
Roughly 100 million, conservatively.
It would be really nice if the Byzantine Empire was resurrected, and the St. Sophia was returned to its rightful form.
The first step would be to engineer a civil war in turkey, and then, with the backing of Greece, the Christians could move in and take the Byzantine territory back.
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Could be they simply overbuilt.
The first step would be to engineer a civil war in turkey, and then, with the backing of Greece, the Christians could move in and take the Byzantine territory back.
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feasible...and probable within 15-20 years. What is needed is steady long term support from Washington...and that means conservative Republican leadership.
"What is needed is steady long term support from Washington...and that means conservative Republican leadership."
I agree.
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