Legacies of Ancient & Modern Cultures
" The sound stops short, the sense flows on" Chinese saying
Antioch on the Orontes opening her threshold either to Anatolia or Mesopotamia is considered as a city of a meeting place of many different civilizations. Being located at the easternmost end of Mediterranean coast and on the main trade route between Asia and Egypt, she eventually became the place of a great library and a... Continue Reading →
Judith Starkston at Tilmen Höyük (tell/mound) in southeastern Turkey When Judith Starkston read my recent post on Göbeklitepe and watched its documentary on National Geographic Channel, she beautifully summed up the whole information and wrote a post on her blog. If you would like to read more about Göbeklitepe you can look... Continue Reading →
Göbeklitepe, a unique prehistoric site (called belly hill because of a depression which looks like a belly button) is one of the most significant archaeological discovery of the 21st century. Klaus Schmidt, a German archaeologist who rediscovered it in south-eastern Turkey in 1994, believed that it is the site of World's oldest temple. The megaliths,... Continue Reading →
Cunda is one of the 23 islands of Ayvalık town lies on the Aegean coast of Turkey opposite the Greek island Lesbos. Once you come to Ayvalık town, you drive by the sea shore and than pass a bridge to reach the island of Cunda. The old windmills being on the top of the hilly... Continue Reading →
January as a mounth name derived from Janus, a Roman god represented with two heads; one of his face looks back into the past, the other looks into the future. He is known as the guardian of time since his images were placed above doorways. He is usually depicted holding a royal sceptre/staff (Heavenly father) in... Continue Reading →
“Nowhere else could we have started the Hogarth Press, whose very awkward beginning had rise in this very room […] Here that strange offspring grew & throve; it ousted us from the dining room […] & crept all over the house. And people have been here, thousands of them it seems to me” Virginia Woolf’s... Continue Reading →
“Let the land prosper and thrive, and let the land be protected”…..from the myth of the Illuyanka. Spring equinox was celebrated as a fertility ritual in the Land of the Hatti. The celebration of these rites were reflected on some rock reliefs that were discovered in Ancient Anatolia.
“Let the land prosper and thrive, and let the land be protected”.....from the myth of the Illuyanka. Spring equinox was celebrated as a fertility ritual in the Land of the Hatti. The celebration of these rites were reflected on some rock reliefs that were discovered in Ancient Anatolia. A cuneiform tablet found during the excavations contains... Continue Reading →
Judith Starkston Judith Starkston as an historical novelist and researcher hands one a telescope to peer back into Anatolia’s past. In her novel, Hand of Fire, she tells about Trojan Women and their roles in Ancient Anatolia and Mycenean Greece, particularly about Briseis’s, the captive woman who sparked the bitter conflict between Achilles and Agamemnon... Continue Reading →
All my life, my only dream was to write a little bit more, a little bit better. Yasar Kemal Acclaimed as one of the greatest writers in Turkish, has died in Istanbul aged 92. He was the first Turkish writer nominated for the Nobel prize for literature. His works often chronicled the lives of... Continue Reading →
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