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Much of the ancient town and its modern counterpart of Belkıs now lie under the reservoir created by the construction of one of Turkey's largest dams in 2000.(Hasan Yelken/Images & Stories) It wasn’t ...

In the summer of 2000, one of the great frontier cities of the Roman Empire, the city of Zeugma, all but disappeared from the face of the Earth under the flood waters of a dam. In a bid to modernise, ...

I learned recently about zeugmas, and they make me happy because I didn’t know they were a thing with a name. A zeugma connects parts of sentences with the same verb. It comes from a Greek root ...

Disputes surround dozens of Roman masterpieces unearthed from the ancient city of Zeugma in southern Turkey. Archaeologist Richard Hodges has told Aljazeera.net of a tragic excavation. “At every stage ...

Zeugma Ancient City --which takes places near Birecik Dam in Nizip town of the southeastern province of Gaziantep-- became the attraction center for world archeology circles, institutions and ...

Zeugma is an ancient city situated on the Euphrates south of Turkey. It is composed of two cities on either side of the Euphrates: Seleucia and Apamea. The construction of a new dam on the Euphrates ...

NARRATOR (JACK FORTUNE): This summer a remote region of Turkey hit the headlines. On the banks of the Euphrates archaeologists have discovered extraordinary examples of Roman art buried in a forgotten ...