Lyrbe (?) is a Greco-Roman site in Eastern Pamphylia (near modern Bucakşeyhler Village in Manavgat, Antalya). Following the excavations in the 1970s conducted by J. Inan, a new survey project has been initiated in 2021. Recent research indicates the importance of environmental factors for this small-scale city. It had a strategic position on a hilltop, […]

Since 2008 I was trained in Black Sea Archaeology in the Pompeiopolis Excavation Project, where I became director of the Pompeiopolis field school (2014–2016) and performed a predoctoral research project on Economics within the Roman cityscape. Spatial analyses in the Paphlagonian metropolis Pompeiopolis in the Turkish Black Sea Region. In 2018 I was awarded the […]

Pisidia Region comprise a diverse set of landscape zones that are characterized by great altitude variations. Various studies have been carried out over many years in order to understand the human-environment interactions in and around this region.  It is not possible to fully grasp the lives of communities without delineating the relations with their environment, […]

Paolo Maranzana is an Italian archaeologist who studied in Italy (BA University of Pavia), UK (MA King’s College London), and the US (PhD University of Michigan). He is currently an assistant professor in Roman Archaeology in the History Department at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul. His work focuses on the impact of the establishment, development, and […]

I am a postdoctoral fellow at the Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED) at Koç University, Istanbul, researching the intersections between late antique religion and economy. After a BA in Anthropology and Classical Archaeology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (IL, USA) and a M.Sc. in Mediterranean Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh (UK), […]

My name is Hale Güney. I received my PhD degree from the University of Exeter in England in 2012. I obtained my BA and MA degrees from Marmara University in İstanbul. I am an ancient historian specialized in ancient economy, ancient numismatics, Greek epigraphy and Asia Minor. Previously I worked at the University of Cologne […]

As being a geologist; micropaleontologist, I have been working on past climate and environmental changes in different regions of Anatolia for the past 15 years. We investigate climate and environmental changes from the Holocene to the present using high-resolution multi-proxy data from lake and marine sediments. The Anatolian peninsula, located in a tectonically active area, […]