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Century old graves unearthed in Nysa Ancient City

Archaeologists have unearthed 47 nearly 1,000-year-old graves in the ancient city of Nysa, in Aydın, Türkiye. Led by Professor Serdar Hakan Öztaner, the excavation has also uncovered a significant street that was buried after a 7th-century earthquake.

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Öztaner further explained that one of the graves is a chamber tomb. "When we entered this tomb, we found a piece of cloth stuck on a coin. Archaeologists have concluded that the cloth is most likely linen and that the tomb belonged to a woman around her forties, whose teeth were corroded by the threads she used for weaving. These were all exciting findings for us. We determined that the graves date back to the 11th century based on the date inscribed on the coin," he said.