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A hidden gem in the ancient Phrygian Valley has become an alternative tourist destination in western Turkey with the many historical places and “fairy chimneys” it boasts. Uclerkayasi village in ...

Four unfinished sarcophagus lids were recently found in the quarries at Docimium (Iscehisar) in central Phrygia. These quarries produced not only the well known pavonazzetto (marmor phrygium or ...

Over the past two decades, excavations at Laodicea, the Roman provincial capital of Phrygia in modern-day Turkey, have produced some remarkable finds. These have included frescoed travertine walls, a ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. All the answers here are linked in some way. Once you’ve spotted the connection, any you didn’t know the first ...

Cart ruts in Turkey's Phrygia Valley are not signs of an alien civilisation, experts say Zeynel Cebeci/CC An alien civilisation did not drive huge all-terrain vehicles across Turkey's Phrygia Valley ...

The Holy 42 Martyrs of Ammoria: Constantine, Aetius (Aetitus), Theophilus, Theodore, Melissenus, Callistus, Basoes and the others with them. During a war between the Byzantine Emperor Theophilus ...

Khachaturian was just hitting his fiftieth birthday when he produced his music to the ballet Spartacus. It later became one of our favourite TV themes. The plot of the ballet had been around for some ...

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