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Enormous Roman Mosaic In Turkey
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10/7/2023
A huge Roman mosaic that was uncovered in southern Turkey by archaeologists from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
The well preserved tiles once decorated a bathhouse during the Roman Empire's zenith.
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I'm Michael Hoff and I have unearthed a massive Roman mosaic.
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The mosaic is spectacular because it is extremely large.
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As far as we are aware, it looks to be the largest mosaic of its kind ever found in southern
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Turkey.
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It's also unusual in its preservation.
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It's extremely well preserved.
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The part that we have excavated, and we have uncovered approximately 50% of it, it looks
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to be in pristine shape.
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We were surprised to have found a mosaic of such size and of such caliber in this region
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of Turkey, an area that had usually been off the map, off the radar screen of most ancient
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historians and archaeologists, and suddenly this thing comes into view.
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It does cause us to change our focus about what we think rough Cilicia was like in antiquity.
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Why is this find so important?
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The reason why is because this region is not well understood in terms of history and archaeology.
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It's not a place where archaeologists have spent much time working in, and therefore
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everything that we find adds more evidence to our understanding of this area of the Roman
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Empire.
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We're beginning to understand that it was perhaps more Romanized, more in line with
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the rest of the Roman world than had been suspected before.
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I lead a team of 60 students and scholars from the University of Nebraska, other United
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States institutions, and as well as our sister school, Ataturk University in Turkey.
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We have an opportunity to get down and get dirty, uncover objects that had never been
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seen before by modern eyes, so that students get a touch of the artifacts, they can measure
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the objects, they can understand what it might have been like in antiquity, to visit a Roman
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temple, to walk on a mosaic pavement, to celebrate in an athletic arena, to go into an ancient
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bath and experience what it might have been like, to actually walk into a still standing
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Roman building from 2,000 years ago.
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It's a rush.
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