Gold coins, jewels, 8,500-year-old skeletons, human skulls, animal bones, and clay amphorae for wine and oil are among the artifacts uncovered at the Yenikapi site.
Rare opportunity to hear firsthand about excavation of ancient port of Constantinople
The N.C. Museum of History in Raleigh presents a rare opportunity to hear firsthand about the 2004 discovery and subsequent excavation of the ancient Harbor of Theodosius, the principal port of Byzantium or Constantinople, in present-day Istanbul, Turkey. Dr. Ufuk Kocabas, Director of Istanbul University’s Department of Marine Archeology and the Yenikapi Shipwrecks Project, will present a lecture and question-and-answer session about the archaeological findings of the ancient harbor beneath the modern Yenikapi neighborhood of Istanbul on Thursday, March 1, at 7:30 p.m. at the museum. A reception begins at 6:30 p.m.Admission is free.
