A Pledge of Loyalty in the East of Rome: The Augustus Oath of Anatolia
April 16, 1900… Belgian historian Bishop Franz Cumont of Amasya encountered a stone, a silent witness to history, in the courtyard of an Orthodox Church in Vezirköprü. Cumont’s simple note, “Monday, April 16: Copied an inscription in a Greek Church,” was actually the discovery of a treasure that would illuminate the history of the Roman
3000-year-old wooden were discovered underwater in the sacred city of Nerik, the Hittites’ holy city
In ongoing archaeological excavations at Oymaağaç Mound, formerly known as Nerik, an important religious and cultural center for the Hittite civilization, 3000-year-old wooden artifacts have been discovered submerged in water. Oymaağaç Mound is located in the Vezirköprü district of Samsun province in northern Turkey. The excavations at Oymaağaç Mound, which began in 2009 in a