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Ancient River Port Discovered Beneath Trabzon Reveals Greek Roots and 2,000 Years of Trade
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Ancient River Port Discovered Beneath Trabzon Reveals Greek Roots and 2,000 Years of Trade
Parts of the city walls of Trabzon and the Eugenius Aqueduct. Credit: İhsan Deniz Kılıçoğlu / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 Archaeologists have uncovered a rare ancient river port beneath the historic Greek city of Trabzon (Greek: Tραπεζοῦς) on Turkey’s Black Sea coast — a city founded in the 8th century BCE. The structure, buried nearly eight meters (about 26 feet) below the modern city, is connected to the Kuzgundere Stream and is now recog…
The ancient dock structure unearthed beneath the demolished Women's Market in Trabzon's Ortahisar district has been recorded as one of the few examples of river ports in the world.
In 2020, an ancient river harbor and dock structure was unearthed beneath the Women's Market in the Pazarkapı neighborhood of Trabzon's Ortahisar district. Discovered during archaeological excavations and restoration work, the structure has been identified as one of only three known river harbors in the world. It is dated to between the 1st century BC and the 1st century AD and bears traces of four different civilizations from the Roman period t…
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