Zeugma has been on the UNESCO World Heritage Site tentative list since 2012. Extant archaeological remains at the site include "the Hellenistic Agora, the Roman Agora, two …

In 2000, the construction of the massive Birecik Dam on the Euphrates River, less than a mile from the site, began to flood the entire area in southern Turkey. Immediately, a ticking time …

Zeugma is home to archaeological remains that reflect the complicated, sometimes ambiguous, yet extremely varied character of the ethnicities which mingled within the city to form new …

Zeugma is the name given to the site of two towns located on opposing banks of the Euphrates. The fertile valley of the Euphrates river has been occupied since prehistoric times; in antiquity, …

2018年6月13日 · The archaeologists worked unceasingly through the winter of 1998–1999, uncovering the most widely recognised artefact from Zeugma - the famous Gypsy Girl Mosaic. …

2024年6月27日 · The ancient Greek mosaics of Zeugma in Turkey are true archaeological treasures that can still be admired at the Zeugma Mosaic Museum in Gaziantep, Turkey. The …

2014年12月14日 · The “Pompeii of the East,” as Zeugma was styled during the momentous days of its drowning, symbolized the clash between development and archaeology, and highlighted …

2014年9月17日 · Like Pompeii, the ancient ruins of Zeugma, a frontier city of the Roman Empire on the banks of the Euphrates River in what is now modern Turkey, stood frozen in time. …

2014年11月28日 · An international team of archaeologists has unearthed three 2,200-year-old, well-preserved glass mosaics at the site of the ancient city of Zeugma in Turkey.

One of the richest and most important archaeological sites of Graeco-Roman date excavated in recent decades in the eastern Mediterranean is ancient Zeugma, located on the Euphrates …