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Japanese archaeologists dig to uncover history at Turkish ancient site
Japanese archaeologists dig to uncover history at Turkish ancient site
More than 2,000 ancient objects unearthed by Japanese archaeologists at a site in Central Anatolia have started to be displayed at a special “mound museum” in the local Japanese Garden. Click through for the story in photos by Hürriyet's İhsan Yılmaz...
Dr. Sachihiro Omura, who has been living in Turkey for the past 40 years, is leading the archaeological work in the Kaman area of the Kırşehir province. The dig, which was started by the Tokyo-based Japanese Anatolian Archaeological Institute supported by Prince Takahito Mikasa in 1978, has been one of the most fruitful of its kind in Turkey.
The Japanese team found more than 2,000 ancient objects on four cultural layers from the Bronze Age to the Ottomans. To display the objects near the site, Omura also designed a museum, inspired by the Turkic mounds, inside the Japanese Garden in the Kalehöyük district.
“It is not a work that can be finished by one generation,” Omura told daily Hürriyet, “There are still so many things to be unearthed here.”
The project has been funded by Turkey’s İşbank.
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