New Discoveries in Ancient Turkey

This lecture reviews the startling new archaeological discoveries that have been made in Turkey during the last 25 years, including the Roman Sebasteion at Aphrodisias, the early Neolithic cult circles at Goebeklitepe, and the Middle Byzantine shipwrecks in Istanbul. The lecture is intended as a special concluding component of the Golden Age of King Midas exhibit. Dr. C. Brian Rose, Curator of the Golden Age of King Midas , will speak.

[briangarrow]

Thank you for posting this fascinating lecture . I am a retired tradesman and grandfather who lives at the far end of the United States. I will probably never have a chance to visit your wonderful museum, but these types of videos give me an opportunity to share in the incredible wealth of knowledge your organization has collected. I want to give the Penn Museum a heartfelt thank you for posting this, and other lectures and presentations. Keep up the great work!

[johnnelson]

Excellent Lecture . I enjoyed it very much. 12 thousand years condensed into a well done one hour presentation . I recommend it to anyone who appreciates ancient civilization studies

[bosdad]

I would make one suggestion. the person filming should zoom in tighter on the screen so that you can see what he is pointing to and talking about. at this distance you can't tell what the finer points are.

[noralouisesyran]

Thank you for this. I spent two glorious years teaching and traveling in Turkey. Saw many of these sites through ARIT. Such a fantastic part of the world for history lovers.

[massimosquecco]

I follow very fondly and continuously any kind of archaeological news but I have to admit that I didn't know about many of those finds the professor was talking about. Thank you very much!

[bradleyeric]

Years ago a woman who was a very early paleoanthropologist proposed a two to three thousand year period between hunter-gatherer and agriculture. This period consisted of corralling animals seasonally and culling them and weeding areas rich in food giving plants thus creating gardens and mixed orchards which later formed sacred groves.

She also pointed out that in many areas hunting continued (in some places to the early modern period).

This notion of a big switch between hunter-gatherers and cultivators and pastoralists is too blunt, too simplistic. There was great variety in modes of transition.

[myself]

Very interesting! I love the way Dr Rose presents information! I have a whole playlist I listen to while I work.

[metekutlu]

Amazing work, amazing lecture. Thanks Penn!

[TomLongusa]

I love stumbling into a a video/channel where I can feed my passion for history and a glimpse of places I’ve yet to visit.

[ag-csgd]

It's sad to see all of this fascinating material dismissed by people because of some misplaced overreaction to a shorthand phrase in the title. All they mean by "ancient Turkey" is the place that's now called Turkey, in ancient times. That's it. I'm sure that the archaeologists excavating sites like Troy are perfectly well aware of the complex history of this place, including the many peoples that have lived there and the many empires that have ruled there. If an archaeologist says she is working on "ancient North America, " that doesn't mean she thinks the place was called "America" or was populated by Europeans in pre-Columbian times! -- I'm all for skepticism, but there's a big difference between intelligent skepticism and stupid skepticism.

[mrdProf]

Lovely! Fascinating sites and finds, and presented enthusiastically. Thanks.

[dennisdonovan]

Lots of intrigue and fascinating insights into what was truly a nexus for human and western cultural history and development. The depth of knowledge by the presenter is, by way of an understatement, impressive.

My only wish would be to able to see the slide show "close up". I kept staining to see the details which I'm sure were incredibly interesting.

[davidhoogendyke]

Fantastic overview, and well presented and delivered. I wish I knew of all this sooner and when I still could see to travel and enjoy the history. This was almost as good as being there, thank you.

[edwinstorz]

Thank you for all the Beautiful Art and so much more History barely mentioned today to the Public, i have so many questions, Thank you for sharing and especially all the hard work.

[Alan]

Is Gobekli Tepe really 5000 years older than Stonehenge, or is it a hint that the dating of other megalithic period architecture needs to be reconsidered? For example, Inca and Egyptian additions to megalithic foundations seem to indicate that enough time passed to cause complete societal amnesia in building techniques. The additions are incredibly more primitive than the foundations, and world-wide, the megaliths seem more related to each other than to succeeding cultures.

[dawne]

This is a lecture about sites that exist in an area we now call Turkey. It is not saying that it is the same people who are there today. However the comment section is full of people who seem to have problems understanding that.

[mrpatriot]

Dr. Brian Rose - have to look him up now on Amazon- amazing lecturer

[crespossss]

at 37:07...he describes a coin from the first century..saying '' holding the globe of the world''
wait...u do realize what does this mean right????

[benpayne]

good information. i look forward to more of your lectures.

[jeanthornton]

brilliant talk. many thanks for all your hard work. very well presented and very clear.