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Archeologists discover 1,600-year-old steelyard weight during Karabük excavations

Turkish archeologists have unearthed a 1,600-year-old steelyard weight during excavations in an ancient city near the Black Sea. The city of Hadrianopolis in the modern province of Karabük is believed to have been used as a settlement area in the late Hellenistic, Roman, and early Byzantine eras.

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This year's excavations focused on the emergence of a square structure, Karabük University archeologist Ersin Çelikbaş, who is supervising the excavations, told Anadolu Agency.