Archaeologists unearthing treasures just meters from ISIL

GAZİANTEP - The Associated Press

A Turkish-Italian team has completed its fourth season of excavations in Karkamış, which is one of the most important archaeological sites in the world and located right on Turkey’s border with Syria

An undated handout image provided by the Turkish-Italian Archaeological Expedition shows a mosaic floor amid the ruins of the expedition house of Lawrence of Arabia, who worked at Karkamış between 1911 and 1914, at a site outside Karkamış, Turkey, meters away from the Turkey-Syria border and the Syrian city of Jarablous.

Archaeology and war don’t usually mix, yet that’s been the case for years at Karkamış, an ancient city along the Turkey-Syria border where an excavation team announced its newest finds Nov. 15 just meters from territory controlled by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

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