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All discoveries reported sent in report to Ankara. With a bit of music ! Collaborators • Ministry of Culture, Republic of Türkiye...

So, what have been the most engaging finds of this year? Well, many simply turned up without much context, on the surface in the initial...

So is our colonnaded street one of kind, or can it be seen as reflecting patterns elsewhere? Well, for the moment, it looks like a...

One of the key narratives for late antique studies is to present a story of Decline and Fall, the traditional Gibbonian narrative, which...

So how are we approaching the question of phasing? This was a major part of our work in 2022 and again this year: to try to problematise...

For those of you who have followed this blog from the beginning, you are perhaps a little puzzled as to exactly what is late antique,...

The late fortification of Sagalassos is now a big part of our research project. We carried out a detailed survey in 2024 of the whole...

Did Christians smash up the ancient city? This is a question often answered in the affirmative in contemporary popular publications and...

When working outdoors with soil, walls, and finds, it is easy to let the everyday life of Sagalassos slip by. We are studying the city...

So, what is ‘spolia’ exactly and why is it so interesting? Well to the ancients the term could only understood as the stripping of armour...

One of the big motivations behind a project like this is the concern that we have got our general impression of the late antique city...

It is common to associate superlatives with Sagalassos: a habit that comes from its situation high in the western Taurus, as much as from...

Why return to Sagalassos? This is a question unique to me, Luke Lavan, subproject director, as most other site workers would likely say...