"A total of 42,000 pieces of ceramic artifacts were found, and they are being documented, photographed, drawn and analyzed," he said. Of them, 65 artifacts have been added to the Sivas Museum collection.
Eser went on to say that during the excavations, they came across historical artifacts from the Middle Ages. "Coincidentally, a few historical artifacts from the Hittite period were unearthed. We found a wide range of artifacts from the early Middle Ages to the late Ottoman, early Republic period until modern-day," he added.
Meryem Acara Eser, an assistant professor at the Department of Art History at Cumhuriyet University, added that some artifacts point to the existence of a religious institution. They include bread stampers used in religious ceremonies, crosses and coins, she added.
