lundi 17 novembre 2014

Archaeologists unearthing treasures just meters from ISIL

GAZİANTEP - The Associated Press

A Turkish-Italian team has completed its fourth season of excavations in Karkamış, which is one of the most important archaeological sites in the world and located right on Turkey’s border with Syria



An undated handout image provided by the Turkish-Italian Archaeological Expedition shows a mosaic floor amid the ruins of the expedition house of Lawrence of Arabia, who worked at Karkamış between 1911 and 1914, at a site outside Karkamış, Turkey, meters away from the Turkey-Syria border and the Syrian city of Jarablous.

An undated handout image provided by the Turkish-Italian Archaeological Expedition shows a mosaic floor amid the ruins of the expedition house of Lawrence of Arabia, who worked at Karkamış between 1911 and 1914, at a site outside Karkamış, Turkey, meters away from the Turkey-Syria border and the Syrian city of Jarablous.
Archaeology and war don’t usually mix, yet that’s been the case for years at Karkamış, an ancient city along the Turkey-Syria border where an excavation team announced its newest finds Nov. 15 just meters from territory controlled by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

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dimanche 16 novembre 2014

Kurdish books attract attention at Istanbul book fair

Anadolu Ajansı

Kurdish books are attracting considerable attention in this year's International Istanbul Book Fair, publishers at the fair said on Nov. 15.
      
Istanbul-based Avesta Publishing manager Rahime Aktürk said his company is presenting over 50 books at the fair, and the best-selling writers are Syrian-Kurdish poet and author Jan Dost, Kurdish writer Hesene Mete and Kurdish linguist Celadet Bedirxan.
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The Byzantium that is still with us

hürriyet daily news

NIKI GAMM

The Hagia Sophia, the walls of Constantinople and a few churches are still with us, while much else remains buried under accumulated building of centuries. Yet we have one institution today whose roots extend back even to the time of New Rome: The Greek Orthodox Church

 A mosaic depicting Fatih Sultan Mehmed handing over a firman (imperial edict) and a staff to Gennadios Scholarios.