A historical palace unearthed at the "Arslantepe Tumulus" located in eastern city of Malatya, will be turned into an open air museum

Arslantepe Tumulus To Become An Open-air Museum
A historical palace unearthed at the "Arslantepe Tumulus" located in eastern city of Malatya, will be turned into an open air museum in collaboration with Italian experts.

Dervis Ozbay, Provincial Director for Culture and Tourism of Malatya, stated that the museum project was developed by Italian experts from "Roma La Sapienza University".

Stressing that an Italian team would arrive in Malatya in May in order to carry out further studies at the site, Ozbay said the excavation work would start in July.


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The first excavations in the Arslantepe region in Malatya were carried out by French archeologists in 1939. Italian experts started to work at the archeological site in 1961. A palace and a royal tomb were unearthed at Arslantepe since then.

Turkish Culture & Tourism Ministry is getting prepared to dispense "Promotion Cards" to tourists who arrive in Turkey

Promotion Card For Tourists
Turkish Culture & Tourism Ministry is getting prepared to dispense "Promotion Cards" to tourists who arrive in Turkey.

Under the project, tourists will earn bonus points as they spend money in Turkey, like in credit cards.

Companies in tourism sector such as hotels and restaurants will become part of the project and when tourists use services of these companies, they will earn discounts and gifts.

The project`s budget is nearly 2.1 million YTL (one USD equals to 1.24 YTL).

"Tourist Promotion Card" will be valid for five years, and its usage will be supported by a web portal.

Officials said that tourists may visit Turkey again to use the bonus points they collected.

World'd Biggest Cuneiform Script On Clay Tablet In Kayseri

The Greater Municipality of central Anatolian province of Kayseri has erected the world's biggest cuneiform script on clay tablet at the Kicikapi square of Kayseri.

The Kayseri tablet consists of cuneiform writing utilized by the Assyrians 4,000 years ago.

The tablet has dimensions of 3.3 x 2.2 meters.

The bottom portion of the tablet has Turkish translation.

To date, archeologists have discovered over 20,000 tablets with cuneiform scripts from the Assyrian era in excavations at Kultepe, Kayseri.