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(Milliyet Newspaper, 10 May 2019)
Rails-to-Ruins
One of Istanbul's most famous buildings is the Haydarpaşa rail terminal
in Kadıköy. When a new rail line started to be built at the station, the
related digging uncovered the ruins of an ancient port city. The
rail line construction related to the new Marmaray rail line began at
Haydarpaşa in 2018 but stopped with the emergence of the ruins.
"I been workin' on the railroad...uh excavation...all the live long
day..."
The Haydarpaşa site was given over to the Istanbul Archeology
Museum Directorate and expert archeologists and fine-arts historians
have been assigned there. The ruins found under the rails, which were
being replaced for the new rail line, come from the Roman, Byzantine,
Ottoman and Turkish Republic periods of Anatolia's history, with the
oldest dating to the 4th century A.D. - in the period stretching from
the Roman rule of Diocletian in 284 to the Byzantine reign of
Heraclius in 641 in what is now Istanbul.
The first rail terminal was built at Haydarpaşa in 1872 and the famous
building that currently stands there was built between 1906-1908 as
the starting point for the Istanbul-Baghdad rail line. So far, the
excavation has produced walls, baths, rooms, water canals, roads
and streets, along with earthenware parts and coins. The dig now
stretches back from the Haydarpaşa station to Ayrılık Çeşmesi, 500
meters inland, where a hotel's construction was stopped when ruins
emerged.
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