3,500-year-old mussel shells have found, some mussels are still closed
Archaeologists found 3,500-year-old mussel shells, some of them closed, in jars in the storage room of a public space unearthed at Tepecik Mound (Tepecik Höyük). Tepecik Mound is located in the Çine district of Aydın province. The layers in the mound show that there was an uninterrupted settlement in the region from the Chalcolithic Age