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Archaeologists find new discoveries in 7,000-year-old port

At Liman Tepe in Izmir's Urla district, one of the first archaeological sites in Türkiye where land and underwater excavations are conducted simultaneously, diver archaeologists have reached remains dating back 5,300 years.

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Şahoğlu said, "Liman Tepe is being archaeologically examined in a holistic way with its landscape that remains both on land and underwater. This is an important port city; we found that a significant part of the city remained underwater as the coastline changed."

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Archaeologists find new discoveries in 7,000-year-old port