Ankara Metropolitan Municipality continues to undertake important projects to unearth and revitalize archaeological, historical and cultural sites in the capital city, which has a deep-rooted history.
Bekir Ödemiş, Project Coordinator of the Department of Cultural and Natural Heritage, stated that Ankara is a 'Tumulus' city and said, "As the Ankara Metropolitan Municipality, we are mobilizing all our resources to make the Tumulus in Ankara visible."
Ankara Metropolitan Municipality continues its efforts to bring the historical and cultural heritage of the capital to the city.
The Department of Cultural and Natural Assets, which continues to undertake important projects to unearth archaeological, historical and cultural sites all around the capital, which has a deep-rooted past, especially the Ulus Historical City Center, has now taken action to make the Tumuli visible.
ÖDEMİŞ: “ANKARA IS A TUMULUS CITY”
Bekir Ödemiş, Ankara Metropolitan Municipality Cultural and Natural Heritage Department Project Coordinator, said, “Ankara is an important Tumulus city. We have hundreds of tumuli within the borders of the surrounding area in Ankara. 132 of them are in the Gordion Ancient City in our Polatlı district and nearly 20 of them are in the Ankara city center. In addition, all of them are registered.”
Bekir Ödemiş, who noted that a new georadar study will be carried out by Ankara University in the Beştepe Tumulus located next to AŞTİ, gave information about the studies carried out together with the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
Ödemiş stated that they mobilized all the resources of Ankara Metropolitan Municipality to make the tumuli in Ankara visible and said the following:
“Our cooperation and work with the ministry on this issue continues. A team from Ankara University, headed by Prof. Yusuf Kadıoğlu, conducted a georadar study at the Beştepe Tumulus. We, as the Metropolitan Municipality, also provided support. As a result of that study, no definite conclusion could be reached as to whether this place was a mound or a tumulus. Now, a new georadar study will be conducted. If it turns out to be a tumulus, we, as the Metropolitan Municipality, will provide the same support here as we do to the other seven excavations and archaeological excavations in Ankara, through the protocol we will make with the museum.”
“OUR AIM IS TO REVEAL THESE STRUCTURES THAT ADD VALUE TO THE CAPITAL CITY”
Ödemiş stated that their aim was to reveal these structures that add value to the capital and continued as follows:
“Our aim is to reveal the structures that have added value to our city in the second century of our formation as the capital. Our main goal is to transform an invisible area within the city into an archaeological tour, open-air exhibition area and an archaeological region where our people can easily walk and visit, through an archaeological excavation and the arrangements we will make immediately afterwards.”
