finding treasure

finding treasure

For the purpose of understanding this presentation we prepared for Istanbul, it should be read and the tribes within it should be explored.

The Yenikapı excavations were perhaps the greatest opportunity for us to understand the thousands of years of Istanbul's history. Although the archaeological remains that aroused by the Marmaray project were at first excited about the entire archeology world, the archaeologists were forced to carry out excavation work against the construction equipment quickly. Even the excavations that have to be completed in a very short period of time in such an important archaeological site have provided and provide many information about Istanbul's thousands of years of history.
Istanbul Archaeological Museum Director Zeynep Sevim Kızıltan, who made a presentation at the conference called il Archeology and History Meetings iğ organized by Türsab, says that in the first stage archaeologists were allowed only drilling works, but it was decided to expand the archaeological excavation areas with the addition of organic materials in the soundings. The archaeological excavations that started in 2004 were conducted simultaneously in five different regions.
Byzantine ship.

The first archaeological excavations started in 2004 as three-shifts with 500 workers and 100 team members. The archaeologists were racing against construction machinery and time. Zeynep Kızıltan stated that slum-like temporary structures were created for archaeologists on the excavation area, and the rise of ground water during the excavations caused problems.

Istanbul and Byzantium

As the studies progressed, approximately 13 meters of culture fill was detected in the area. These cultural layers, which included the Republican period, the Ottoman period, the Byzantine period, the Roman period, the hellenistic period, the classical period, the archaic period and the Neolithic period, provided unique information about Istanbul's history.
Byzantine Period
A church structure dating back to the 12th or 13th century was found under the ottoman layer in the region. Around the church there were 23 graves connected with the church. It was determined that the church was built after the port was filled with alluvium. The documentation of the church structure was carried out, and then it was removed from the parts warehouse to be rebuilt.
1500 year old ivory dice.

Organic materials began to emerge from the wet soil as the layers were lowered. During the Byzantine period, the port of theodosius found 37 boats. In this period, this bay began to shrink with alluviums carried by the lipos stream and began to fill up in the 7th century.

In the port of theodosius, where the great Byzantine ship ensemble has been discovered so far, the researchers consider the boats in three different groups: small-sized, medium-sized and large-sized commercial boats: six small-sized boats called the puller are described as war boats.

istanbul

Transnational migrations, transfer of information and goods have necessarily used it and have left their archaeologically readable traces in this region. In spite of this importance of cultural history, Istanbul region is one of the least researched places in the world. Our knowledge about Istanbul and its surroundings, which have such a critical importance in terms of the history of civilization, is extremely limited and discontinuous. It should be understood correctly that this past is limited to a narrow time frame of 2700 years starting with the colonialization of the megarians that the past has settled in the memory of the city, while the first people from africa have covered a period of 1.5 million years. There are only two scientific excavations conducted to reveal the 1.5-million-year period: 1952-54 wolf bittel and halet çambelittin fikirtepe, 1988-1990 trust arsebük and clark howell's yarrow springs. In addition to these two scientific studies, we conducted a limited survey in the 1980s; in 1964-65 the excavation of the snake with the Sevket kansu and the sord Kökten in the Halfburgaz; It consists of singular finds. In other words, nothing has been done to document the importance of this city, which we have boasted with its past, in terms of the history of civilization. Despite all this information gap, the results obtained from the limited studies mentioned above give the clues to the splendor and importance of the distant past of Istanbul.

finding treasure

In this article, we tried to summarize what we know about the prehistoric cultures that spread over 1.5 million years in Istanbul. When we look at the information we have, the situation that arises, as well as the determinism of the strategic position of the city among the cultural geographies, does not suit the definition made as a capital of culture. Cultural assets