'Marmaray and metro excavations yielded major discoveries about Istanbul's past'
ISTANBUL – Hürriyet Daily News
The excavations prompted by projects in Istanbul's historic peninsula led to a discoveries that take the city's known history back 6,500 years. 'Istanbul’s history was known to date back 2,600 years. But we found foot prints from 8,000 years ago' says Zeynep Kızıltan, the director of Istanbul Archaeological Museums
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