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<h1 class="articleHeadline" itemprop="headline"><nyt>After Being
Stricken by Drought, Istanbul Yields Ancient
Treasure</nyt></h1>
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<h6 class="byline" itemprop="name">By JENNIFER PINKOWSKI</h6>
</span></nyt>ISTANBUL For 1,600 years, this city Turkeys
largest has been built and destroyed, erected and erased, as layer
upon layer of life has thrived on its seven hills. <br>
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<p itemprop="articleBody" data="TIiAoa">Today,
Istanbul is a city of 13 million, spread far beyond those hills. And on
a long-farmed peninsula jutting into Lake Kucukcekmece, 13 miles west
of the city center, archaeologists have made an extraordinary find. </p>
<p itemprop="articleBody" data="Tfiapt">The find is
Bathonea, a substantial harbor town dating from the second century B.C.
Discovered in 2007 after a drought lowered the lakes water table, it
has been yielding a trove of relics from the fourth to the sixth
centuries A.D., a period that parallels Istanbuls founding and its
rise as Constantinople, a seat of power in the Eastern Roman/Byzantine
and Ottoman Empires. </p>
<p itemprop="articleBody" data="WtaTso">While there
are some historical records of this early period, precious few physical
artifacts exist. The slim offerings in the Istanbul section of the <a
href="http://www.istanbularkeoloji.gov.tr/web/38-147-1-1/muze_-_en/main_page/main_page/main_page">Archaeological
Museums</a> here reflect that, paling in comparison with the riches on
display from Anatolia, Mesopotamia and Lebanon. </p>
<p itemprop="articleBody" data="SBpSBp">So <a
title="An aerial video of the site."
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsqY1DdRzPM">Bathonea</a>
(pronounced bath-oh-NAY-uh) has the potential to become a library of
Constantinople, says Sengul Aydingun, the archaeologist who made the
initial discovery. <br>
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<p itemprop="articleBody" data="SBpSBp">Read the rest
at: <a
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/24/science/istanbul-yields-a-treasure-trove-in-ancient-bathonea.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/24/science/istanbul-yields-a-treasure-trove-in-ancient-bathonea.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all</a><br>
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