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Submitted by davidmorgan on Monday, 20 December 2010  Page Views: 4345

Multi-periodSite Name: Oylum Hoyuk Alternative Name: Oylum Höyük
Country: Turkey
NOTE: This site is 5.844 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Kilis  Nearest Village: Oylum
Latitude: 36.699138N  Longitude: 37.178462E
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.
no data 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.
4 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
4

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Ancient Settlement in Kilis Province, Turkey.

Oylum Höyük was continuously settled from the Neolithic period to Hellenistic times and formed the regional centre during these four millennia. The place lost importance only during Roman times, when the settlement moved to the opposite side of the river.
From the German Archaeological Institute excavation website.


Also on the TAY Project website.

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Two women found burned in ancient Oylum palace fire by davidmorgan on Sunday, 23 August 2015
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Two 3,900-year-old female skeletons from the Bronze Age have been unearthed at Oylum Mound in the southeastern province of Kilis.

Oylum is located three kilometers away from the Syrian border and is one of the largest mounds in the southeastern Anatolian region in terms of its size. Excavations have been carried out by a team from the Cumhuriyet University Archaeology Department. Sixty people, 25 of whom are academics, are working at the site.

Excavations head Associated Professor Atilla Engin said they were almost done with the excavations this year. He said they compiled important data during the work, and added, “We worked particularly in the layers of the Mid Bronze Age. We can say that the big monumental structure that was unearthed in previous years was a palace.”

Engin said the structure had at least three floors, and continued: “The most important part of the palace is the area where the king lived with his family and was called seraglio. The structure was exposed to a severe fire. We think that the fire was caused by an attack. We unearthed some parts of the palace and found 3,900-year-old female skeletons. We think they burned to death in the palace.”

Engin said a large portion of the palace was still underground.

He said they would begin a new project to protect the palace, and Oylum Mound could become an open-air museum in future.

“We have found housings and narrow streets here. The dead people were buried inside the houses,” he said.

Source: Hürriyet
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