Today, the remains of Turkey’s Aegean and Mediterranean coastline is scattered with the ruins of small city-state confederations, such as Lycia, Lydia and Pisidia, which rose in prominence during the Iron Age.
For several hours, bestselling author and journalist Graham Hancock traded barbs with materialist science writer and founder of The Skeptics Society, Michael Shermer, over the deeper significance of the Göbekli Tepe find in Turkey. He instantly realized the site was extraordinary.An episode of Joe Rogan’s podcast, featuring Graham Hancock, garnered more than 3.5 million views on its, since it aired in 2017. He travels to far off places in search of Biblical antiquities and doesn't like snakes. Excavations at Boncuklu Tarla, which is located in southeastern Turkey’s Mardin, began in 2012. Ancient City of Ephesus: Premier Turkish site - See 9,694 traveler reviews, 12,071 candid photos, and great deals for Selcuk, Turkey, at Tripadvisor. Click on the name of a city on the Map of Turkey (or on the Navigation Pane) to read the time line and city guide of Turkey. Göbekli Tepe is an archaeological site in the Southeastern Anatolia Region of Turkey approximately 12 km (7 mi) northeast of the city of Şanlıurfa. However, please do not think I am a number snob because more importantly, it is the extensive work that has gone into restoring much of them to their original appearance that should be admired. The statues and toppled heads of Antiochus surrounded by his godly mates on the summit are one of Turkey’s eeriest ancient sites. Turkish daily says ancient site in Thessaloniki built 300 years before Mohammed is a mosque by Paul Antonopoulos. It is approximately 760 m (2,500 ft) above sea level. Erdoğan said that the Neolithic period saw the establishment of the first sedentary society that led to controlled food production. that the archaeological excavations are being conducted by Mardin Museum Director Nihat Erdoğan and his team. Other popular sites tend to include Troy, … Only an open mind may yield a more accurate picture of the world as it was 12,000-plus years ago, perhaps changing the timeline of human history. Sixty-five Turkish-language schools have been closed down in the past eight years, with the latest closure occurring in the village of Kalamokastro,” the article said.Although it is true that 65 Turkish-language schools have been closed down in the past eight years, the outlet of course does not explain in detail why this is, and rather alludes that it is part of systematic racism by the Greek state.Unfortunately, between 2009 and 2014, 1,705 schools all across Greece shut down because of austerity measures during the economic crisis.
Many more schools after 2014 also shut down because of a lack of funding.Greece in 2011 began a process of cost saving by merging schools with extremely low numbers of students together.Highlighting the reality of austerity was omitted by The Daily Sabah.Continuing the attack, Daily Sabah then says that “The Fethiye Mosque in Athens, built by Mehmet the Conqueror in 1458, is currently being used as an exhibition hall,” while forgetting that on the original site of the mosque was a Byzantine Church that was converted into a mosque, then demolished to build the Fethiye Mosque.The article also mentions how the famous Tzistarakis Mosque in Monastiraki today is a ceramics museum, but not how the Turks built it by destroying and using ancient columns from Hadrian’s library that was constructed in 132 AD.And without nitpicking every other mosque the article mentions, we jump to the most hilarious of all the falsities presented by The Daily Sabah in their ramblings of how many mosques in Greece are falling into disrepair- the feature photo used in the article.The Rotunda of Galerius, or as the Daily Sabah mislabels it, the “Sultan Hortac Mosque,” was built in the 4th century, nearly 300 years before Mohammed, the founder of Islam.Rotunda of Galerius was initially built as a mausoleum for Roman Emperor Galerius, but on orders of Emperor Theodosius I it became a church as it laid empty for decades when Galerius was ultimately buried at Felix Romuliana in modern day Serbia instead.Despite being a Christian temple for 1200 years, it was converted into a mosque in 1590 A.D., during the Ottoman occupation period. Like the film character Indiana Jones, Mark Fairchild is a professor at a university in Indiana.