The so-called Tomb of the Carian Princess, was discovered in 1989 during construction work just northeast of Bodrum, ancient Halicarnassus, was a grave chamber with a sarcophagus in which the skeleton was a female about 40 years old. The woman had sewn in a richly ornamented robe with golden applications from a variety of shapes and designs, . . . → Read More: The Tomb of the Carian Princess
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In 1994, a rescue excavation was conducted in the Gumuscay district, near Biga in the province of Canakkale, where seven burial mounds have been identified in a region known Tumbetepe Barrow. In one of these, they found two separate Kizoldun tumulus tomb burials. The larger of the two sarcophagi, 3.32 m. in length, 1.60 m. in width, 1.78 m. in height . . . → Read More: Kizoldun and Dedetepe Tumuli The paintings of the Lycian-Persian grave chamber Karaburun near Elmali (Antalya), which may be referred to here for comparative analysis, offer a relatively well-preserved sequence of scenes from the life and afterlife of dignitary is buried about 470 BC. These local nobles or AGA had built the chamber Karaburun limestone and decorated, and covered by a mound . . . → Read More: Karaburun The Tumulus Harta provides another example of vandalism ruining Lydian Wail painting. The grave chamber was designed by architectural color in a manner and with figurative scenes and human figures. The plundered, cut out pieces of wall panels with designs call for short comments here. The Aktepe was painted with meaningful figures that decorated an integral part of the grave as a symbolic site of the plant beyond the faith and ritual formed, the Lydians. The two figures in the creation of a dignified participation well attended resting place for the person to be buried here and lying on the couch. Participants have . . . → Read More: The Wall Paintings of Aktepe In plain near the village of Bayindir Elmali in northern Lycia, a total of 100 burials mounds. A few of them were examined by a team from the Antalya Museum, beginning in 1987. The excavations focused on two of the tumuli in particular tumulus Tumulus C and D, the difference in burial rites, cremation and burial or display. In-situ . . . → Read More: Bayindir Tumuli Toptepe looted in 1965, gave an insight into the burial on the stone Kline, with rich jewellew on the skin, the bones, which had to powder. The presence of a large number of stone alabastra confirmed the essential provision of fragrant oil to Lydian burials. The remains of the symposium Extras are few, but we found the most . . . → Read More: Toptepe Tomb Our knowledge of the Lydians, led the expedition to Sardis by Howard Crosby Butler of Princeton University 1910-1914, was almost exclusively on literary evidence. Butler’s excavations brought more than 1,100 rock-hewn tombs of Lydian known in the cemetery area as Pactolos West, west of the monumental temple of Artemis. Almost all of the graves have been found to . . . → Read More: Sardis Gordion is located on a flat hill called low Yassihoyuk, on the east bank of the Sakarya (Sangarius) River, north of its confluence with the Porsuk (Tembris). The site was first investigated by the brothers Korte in 1900, and was excavated in 1950 from the Pennsylvania University Museum expedition led by Rodney Young, until his tragic death . . . → Read More: Gordion |
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