Graves of Mardin’s ancient city to open visitors

A gallery grave, unearthed during archaeological excavations in the ancient city of Dara in the southeastern Turkish province of Mardin eight years ago, will be opened to visitors. 

The gallery grave (a form of megalithic tomb), where hundreds of people were buried together, and where reinvigoration ceremonies took place in the Roman era, was unearthed in the 2009-2010 excavation season in the central Artuklu district.

The “Dara Gallery Cemetery Relief, Restitution and Restoration Project” was then approved by the Diyarbakır Cultural and Natural Heritage Preservation Board, and since then works have been carried out by the Mardin Museum Directorate. 

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