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Much of the ancient town and its modern counterpart of Belkıs now lie under the reservoir created by the construction of one of Turkey's largest dams in 2000.(Hasan Yelken/Images & Stories) It wasn’t ...

Zeugma Systems Inc., a company developing a telecommunications system for next generation high speed broadband networks, today announced completion of its US$22.5 million Series B financing. The ...

In the summer of 2000, one of the great frontier cities of the Roman Empire, the city of Zeugma, all but disappeared from the face of the Earth under the flood waters of a dam. In a bid to modernise, ...

I learned recently about zeugmas, and they make me happy because I didn’t know they were a thing with a name. A zeugma connects parts of sentences with the same verb. It comes from a Greek root ...

The Zeugma Mosaic Museum, the world’s single largest museum for mosaic art, continues to attract thousands of visitors daily – both local and foreign – to southern Turkey’s city of Gaziantep.

Disputes surround dozens of Roman masterpieces unearthed from the ancient city of Zeugma in southern Turkey. Archaeologist Richard Hodges has told Aljazeera.net of a tragic excavation. “At every stage ...

In Gaziantep city of Turkey, the gypsy girl seemed to be everywhere. As a symbol of the Gaziantep city, on the brochures of the Zeugma Mosaic Museum and its tickets, in pictorial illustrations of art ...

NARRATOR (JACK FORTUNE): This summer a remote region of Turkey hit the headlines. On the banks of the Euphrates archaeologists have discovered extraordinary examples of Roman art buried in a forgotten ...