Iron Age rock art depicting ancient Gods discovered beneath Turkish home
The ancient inscriptions were in a hidden tunnel complex found by looters before archaeologists carried out a rescue mission.
Ancient art dating back to the Iron Age has been discovered by looters beneath a house in Turkey.
The art, which is cut into a rock, was found in a hidden underground complex concealed beneath a domestic home in the remote village of Başbük, in south-eastern Turkey near the Syrian border.
The Art Newspaper
May 11, 2022
© M. Önal, C. Uludağ, Y. Koyuncu; courtesy of Antiquity Publications Ltd
Although the art was first uncovered by looters, the myriad complex of tunnels has now been studied by archaeologists after a rescue mission. They dated it to the first millennium BC—probably between 900 and 600 BC when the area, and much of the Near East, was controlled by the Neo-Assyrians.
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