Archaeological excavations continue in Smyrna Mound (former Smyra) in ̇zmir's Bayraklı district.
5 thousand years at Smyra Mound in Izmir. On behalf of the Director of the IZMIR Museum of the Director of the Savaş Gürbüz Museum, the Faculty of the University of Ege, the Faculty of Archaeological Professor. Dr. Aylin ümit Erdem is done according to scientific advice.
Professor Dr. Aylin Umit Erdem, 5 thousand -Dat excavation excavation provides important data on the history of the city, he said.
Saying that excavations were initiated in 1948 in the mound and continued in the periods, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism for about 2 years continued within the scope of the project “Inheritance of the future”, Erdem said that they focused on the gate walls and Menumental tower at the entrance of the city last year.
Erdem, “We are thinking of strengthening in the northern and southern areas of the Athena temple,” he said, added:
“The excavations of the defensive wall of the classic period in the north of the temple continued. In the south, different structures may have from the 6th or 4th century before Christ was revealed. We continue to work without interruption.”
Erdem, in recent years, as well as the iron era, the bronze classes have gathered, the Smyrna mound in different periods of the work history of the work to illuminate history will continue without slowing down, he added.
