Archaeological Excavations Continue in Amasra

Amasra's 3 thousand years of history is under the fields and buildings!

3 thousand years of history gushes from Amasra's bedesten area and historical city center.

The works carried out by the Amasra Museum in Amasra, which contains works from the Hellenistic period, the Ionian, Roman, Byzantine and Genoese periods, which are known to have been founded in the 300th BC, continue.

The beginning of the Hellenic Period is often marked with the date of death of Alexander the Great. 323 BC is taken as . The end of the period was when the Greek Peninsula was occupied by the Roman Republic. 146 BC It is considered. Some historians accept 31-30 BC as the end of the Period, when the Ptolemaic Dynasty, the last remaining state from the empire of Alexander the Great, was defeated and destroyed in the Battle of Actium (Green P).

Amasra Museum Director Aydın said, “Amasra is an ancient city, like the ancient Greek and Roman cities, and a provincial center of those periods. “Protecting and protecting the 40 percent of the ancient city that remains under agricultural areas and transferring it to future generations in a healthy way is an issue of great importance in terms of humanity's cultural history and cultural heritage.” "We aim to unearth this ancient city in the district where we started scientific rescue excavations," he said.

Source: Green P. Alexander The Great and the Hellenistic Age, page: xiii. GreenP.