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2,500-year-old Aphrodite temple discovered in Turkey

A team of Turkish scientists and archaeologists discovered the remains of a 2,500-year-old Aphrodite Temple in the Urla-Çeşme peninsula in Turkey's west. As a result of screening an area of 1,600 square meters that covers parts of Urla, Çeşme and Seferihisar districts of Izmir, 35 pre-historic era human settlements, including 16 from the late Neolithic period, were uncovered.

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Aphrodite is an ancient Greek goddess associated with love, beauty, pleasure, passion and procreation. She also remarked that the first traces of the temple were discovered back in 2016 and were announced to the world by a journal article.