Several metres of sand now cover the second-century Roman baths at Allianoi, the largest in Asia Minor. The wall paintings and columns, a few kilometres from the ancient city of Pergamon in western ...

A reservoir created by a new hydroelectric dam in western Turkey will soon permanently flood the ruins of the Roman-era bath complex of Allianoi. Workers dump sand over the Allianoi, the world's ...

London, England (CNN)-- In Allianoi, an ancient Roman spa town near Bergama in Turkey, workers have been busy heaping sand onto the ruins. It's the opposite of what you would normally see at a ...

Turkish officials have refused to give permission to Professor Ahmet Yaraş, the former of head of the Allianoi excavations, to conduct a dig at an archaeological site of Güre in Balıkesir's Edremit ...

Turkey is the youngest country in Europe. The average age of its population is below 30. It is also the most ancient. An invaluable cultural heritage is concentrated there. Try now to imagine all this ...

Standing at one end of a half-submerged ancient bridge, Abdullah Sengul reflects on the years he spent guarding the treasures now lying beneath the rising water around him. For 10 years he was a night ...

Allianoi, an ancient site that was discovered just 10 years ago, will be submerged under the waters of Yortanli irrigation dam, which is much needed for the local farmers. When construction of the dam ...

The floodwaters have not arrived yet but the Yortanli dam is ready. As his team of tireless diggers ignores the sizzling Anatolian heat to uncover the secrets of Allianoi, Dr Ahmet Yaras had the look ...

Assoc. Prof. Yaraş, head of the Excavation Board, announced to carry on with their protest against covering the ancient city of Alllianoi in concrete because of the flooding of the Yortanlı Dam. The ...

This video documentary by photographer Mehmet Güngör shows the Allianoi archaeological site before the Yortanli dam was built and the site itself was flooded. The commentary is in Turkish, but the ...