Yumuktepe Mound
The mound was unearthed between 1936-1938 by British Archaeologist John Garstang (1876-1956), who later founded the Ankara British Archaeological Institute. As the excavations stopped during the Second World War, some documents belonging to this excavation at the University of Liverpool were destroyed due to the bombing of the university archive. However, both the continuing studies of John Garstang after the war and the new studies initiated by Veli Sevin from Istanbul University and Isabella Caneva from the University of Rome in 1993 have revealed many things. The mound, which was outside the city during the first excavations, later remained inside the city center with the expansion of the city.
