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Multi-periodSite Name: Oluz Mound Alternative Name: Oluz Höyük
Country: Turkey
NOTE: This site is 15.407 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Amasya  Nearest Village: Toklucak
Latitude: 40.545700N  Longitude: 35.628500E
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Oluz Mound submitted by davidmorgan : Ongoing excavations at Oluz Höyük. Photo credit: Hürriyet Daily News. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient Settlement in Amasya Province, Turkey

A large mound, measuring 300 x 250 metres and 15m in height, originally dating from the Early Bronze Age.

Photo credit: Hürriyet Daily News.
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Ancient Persian post office found in Amasya by davidmorgan on Wednesday, 12 May 2021
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From August 2019.

Archaeological excavations in Oluz Mound in the Black Sea province of Amasya unearthed 2,500-year-old remains from an ancient Persian era. Officials believe the remains were of a post office.

The 13th term excavations in Oluz Mound, located 25 kilometers from Amasya, started on July 24 this year. Works that are carried out by five academics, three archaeologists, 15 intern archaeologists and an architectural restoration student from five different universities will continue until the end of the month.

So far, 10 settlements have been unearthed during the excavations in the mound. All of these 10 settlements are in a mound formation.

It is observed as an uninterrupted settlement until the end of the Hellenistic years in 100 B.C., from the 4,000-4,500 B.C., the young chalcolithic ages of Anatolia.

The head of the excavations, Istanbul University Archaeology Department Professor Şevket Dönmez said that they uncovered a structure covering an area of 120 square meters and they believed it was a post office. The 2,500-year-old structure belongs to the Persian era.

“Every year we make very important archaeological discoveries here. This area is very important. Since 2010, works have been carried out in Persian layers and architecture. The importance of this place comes from the basis of the Persians coming here and building their own architecture. They built a fire-temple here and developed their city around this temple. There is a sanctuary next to the fire temple, the stone roads reaching the temple and a columned hall in the west where we have been working for the last two years. This columned hall is a structure that was unearthed for the first time in Anatolian archeology for the Persian period. There are columned halls in other periods but it is a very important building for the 5th century. This columned hall has six stone bases. We think they have wooden posts. It is a monumental building. The fact that this structure is next to the temple makes us think about the functions of this structure. For example, it may be a place for gathering or a postal center,” said Dönmez.

Stating that if it was a post office, messengers and horses were waiting in front of this place, Dönmez said.

“Messengers called ‘çapar’ were waiting in this post office. Tired horses and envoys were exchanged here and posts were being transported to their places regardless of summer and winter or day and night. The Persians were religious people. They believed in the Zarathustra religion based on the fire culture. We think that post offices were next to the columned hall and we can say that this structure is a post office,” he added.

Dönmez said that the first example of a belief, called monotheism in Islamic religion and monotheism in religious philosophy, was experienced in Oluz Höyük for the first time.

He said that during the works, they obtained evidences that transition from paganism to monotheistic religion in Anatolia and Asia Minor began in Oluz mound and stressed that this is very important in terms of archeology of religions.

“It can be thought that a community living here formed a new religion that worshiped fire. Until this period, Anatolia had paganism under the influence of both the Greek gods and the Phrygian period. For the first time, we see that in this period all the gods united and people began to worship a single god.”

Source: Hürriyet Daily News
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Excavations ‘could change religious history of Anatolia’ by davidmorgan on Tuesday, 07 November 2017
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Persian settlement unearthed in the northern province of Amasya will change the religious history of Anatolia, according to Istanbul University Archaeology Professor Şevket Dönmez, who has spent many years leading excavations at the Oluz Mound where the find was made.

Speaking to state-run Anadolu Agency, Dönmez said they discovered the mound in 1999 during a surface survey and excavations have been ongoing since 2007.

Dönmez said that they had recently finished the 11th season of excavations and so far have delivered 1,030 artifacts from the Persian-era settlement to the museum.

“We have also unearthed important cultural layers and cities. We have made some very important discoveries during these excavations. They are important enough to change the religious history in Anatolia,” he added, noting that the settlement dates back to the 5th century B.C.

“We have found a temple complex never previously seen in Anatolian archaeology. The temple is really original and provides information about the people who revered the element of fire, which is early Zoroastrianism. There is a holy room inside where fires were lit. There are also other rooms. Most importantly, we unearthed objects that were used in the temple,” Dönmez said.

Some of the findings date back as far as 2,000 years before the emergence of Christianity.

“The settlement shows that Anatolia was one of the holy geographies of Zoroastrianism, the sacred scripture of which is Avesta,” Dönmez said.

While Zoroastrianism originated in Iran, the excavations in Amasya show that the religion also had a presence in Anatolia.

“The Oluz Mound is the only such settlement discovered on Anatolian soil. We know there was a lake here. The Ancient Persians loved living ecosystems and established parks and they carried their fire culture from Amasya to other places. We discovered this fact. Maybe we will restore the fire temple. We are working on it,” Dönmez said.

He stressed that the latest findings are “just the beginning,” saying that if they continue to work on the site they could unearth the entire temple.

“We could publicly announce it in publications and organize visits. It would be a big move for the Central Black Sea region,” Dönmez said.

Source: Hürriyet
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