WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING IN THE CLASSICAL WORLD? TURKEY, EGYPT, SYRIA, EGYPT and environs – Appendix D

i – 1800-year-old marble inscription, official complaint against Tax Collectors, found in Turkey’s Aigai excavations deciphered

ii – One Of A Kind 2,500-Year-Old Ritual Wash Basin Painted With Mythological Figures Discovered In The Ancient City Of Klazomenai

iii – The Wonder of Aphrodisias

iv – Archaeologists have unearthed a Roman-era marble sundial in the ancient city of Aizanoi in the Çavdarhisar district of Kütahya province in Turkey’s Aegean region.

v – Corpus of painted Imperial Roman marble reliefs from Nicomedia: a preliminary report on polychromy.

vi – Excavations continue to unearth the largest theatre in Thrace, located in the Ancient City of Perinthos in the Marmara Ereğlisi district of Tekirdağ. “It is not possible to estimate it exactly right now but let me tell you its dimensions; 90 meters by 130 meters, it is quite a large one. It is the largest known theater in the ancient cities of Thrace.”

vii – Stone bathtub, 1st example of water birth, found in Türkiye’s Ani:

viii – Turkish museum displays Nature God ‘Dionysus’ for the first time in 92 years

ix – Giant Roman era mosaic uncovered in Syria features two Greek scenes

x – Ephesos: More than 1,400-year-old area of the city discovered under a burnt layer

xi – A large mosaic depicting the legendary Trojan hero Aeneas, the protagonist of Virgil’s epic poem “The Aeneid” and the ancestor of the Roman people, has been unearthed in the southern Turkish city of Osmaniye

xii – The 90-year archive of American archaeologist Carl Blegen, one of the prominent figures working in the ancient city of Troy, which has been excavated for more than 150 years in the borders of Tevfikiye village, in central Çanakkale, has been made available to researchers digitally

xiii – Dominican mission discovers 1,305-meter Greco-Roman ancient rock-cut tunnel in Alexandria

xiv – Ancient ornithomancy: Pergamon reveals tomb of ‘Bird Oracle’  – the inscription said the owner of the tomb, Mark, was a “bird oracle” who lived in the second century A.D.

xv – 2,000-year-old whistle found at child’s grave in Türkiye’s Assos

xvi – The 1,500-Year-Old Lady’s Byzantine Sandals with Sweet Message in Greek

xvii – Why Lebanon’s Roman Ruins Make It Worth Visiting

xviii – Saving the Ancient Glass Artifacts Shattered in the Beirut Explosion. These centuries-old vessels now have new stories to tell 

ix – Five years after ISIL defeat, Iraq ancient ruins open to tourists 

x – Thracians from the Rhodope Mountains lived in Troy