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Excavations at Kumluca’s Rhodiapolis Ancient City to resume next year
Kumluca District Governor Bahadır Güneş visited Rhodiapolis Ancient City with a delegation. Excavations at the site began in 2006 before being suspended. Dr. Beste Tomay said field inspections were continuing this year and that the excavations were planned to resume next year.
Kumluca District Governor Bahadır Güneş visited Rhodiapolis Ancient City with a delegation. Excavations at the site began in 2006 but were suspended after some time.
Güneş said they viewed Rhodiapolis as Kumluca’s window onto history. He noted that much of the ancient city had been brought to light through excavations and said the resumption of the work was important.
Excavation preparations continue this year
Dr. Beste Tomay, a faculty member in the Department of Archaeology at Adıyaman University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences and an adviser to the excavation work at the ancient city, said Rhodiapolis holds an important place among the Lycian cities in historical and cultural terms.
Tomay said the suspended excavations were planned to resume next year. She said field inspections were being conducted at the site this year, previous work was being evaluated and the inventory of the storage facility had been prepared. Tomay added that work would resume from next year under the coordination of the excavation leadership.
Remains from the Lycian and Byzantine periods
Rhodiapolis Ancient City contains a theater, bathhouse, agora, temple, church, cistern and monumental tomb dating from the Lycian and Byzantine periods.
Tomay said she believed bringing the entire ancient city to light would make a significant historical and cultural contribution to Kumluca.
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