April
04
/ 2021
Recently, two unidentified men, conducting an illegal excavation, stumbled upon an invaluable piece of history in western Turkey. The robbers had inadvertently unearthed a rare mosaic that was once part of a Roman monastery, built nearly 1,500 years ago during the Byzantine era of the Roman Empire. As reported by the Anadolu Agency, a Turkish news service, the two suspects were arrested in Izmir province, Anatolia, as they were trying to remove the Roman monastery remains, by officers of the Turkish Ministry of Interior acting on a tip-off. The Remarkable Roman Monastery Discovery at Izmir The world might have missed out on another glorious Byzantine relic, had the two robbers been subtle enough. Fortunately, they were caught in the act
