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<< Text Pages >> Kerkenes - Ancient Village or Settlement in Turkey

Submitted by AlexHunger on Friday, 04 August 2006  Page Views: 3560

Multi-periodSite Name: Kerkenes Alternative Name: Kerkenes Dağı
Country: Turkey
NOTE: This site is 0.983 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Sorgun  Nearest Village: Şahmuratlı
Latitude: 39.750000N  Longitude: 35.060000E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
 2 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 5 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
 3 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
 5

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Ancient Village or Settlement in Yozgat Province, Turkey

Kerkenes, a Phrygian city, is the largest pre-Hellenistic site on the Anatolian Plateau. The town had 7 kilometres of strong stone fortifications with 7 gates, that enclose 2.5 square kilometres. The city was burned, destroyed, and abandoned.

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Lost City of Pteria finally unearthed in Turkey’s Yozgat by davidmorgan on Wednesday, 27 July 2016
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Archeological activity in the excavation area of the ancient town of the lost city of Pteria, located near the village of Şahmuratlı in the Central Anatolian province of Yozgat, has been completed.

Significant discoveries have been made in the project carried out by a team of 45 people, led by American archeologist Scott Branting.

The site is home to many remarkable historical treasures, said Branting, who has been leading and actively participating in archeological projects at the Şahmuratlı-Kerkenes ruins for 22 years.

Brenting added that the archeological activity in the area might have to continue for a long time due to the sheer volume of possible findings, adding that the Kerkenes area is believed to have been home to a civilization in 600 BC.

Yasemin Özarslan, a research staff at the Faculty of Archeology at Koç University, who has been leading the archeological team along with Branting, confirmed that the works at the site, ongoing since May 15, have been concluded.

“This year, we continued the excavation in the northern city block of the city of Kerkenes Demirçağı. This block is only one out of the 757 remaining blocks in the city. A mixed group of 30 students and researchers from various cities and universities participated in the excavation. Also, 15 people from the village of Şahmuratlı provided help and support,” says Özarslan.

“We’ve been unearthing some of the buildings and open plains in the north of the city. The scraping of a columned building has been concluded, along with the multiple structures and plains surrounding it such as various clusters of buildings, frameworks and alleys in the area,” she added.

“We have mainly discovered rock paved streets and avenues, a majority of which we were able to unearth. Multiple remains and objects belonging to the Iron Age [600-700 B.C.] have been discovered,” said Özarslan, describing the significant initial findings made by the archeologists.

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