Building a hotel, digging 13 ancient civilizations

A hotel in Turkey took 10 years to complete because a series of relics belonging to 13 different civilizations in turn revealed that they had to reverse the design to preserve.

Entrepreneur Necmi Asfuro củalu, owner of the Antakya Museum Hotel (ie " Antakya Museum Hotel " ) has just opened in Antioch (Turkey), sharing with the press about 10 years he and his colleagues have experienced, when luxury hotel works accidentally turned into a great archaeological excavation.

Modern architecture crept in places without relics to preserve what belongs to ancient civilizations - (photo: The Museum Hotel Antakya).

So far, after 10 years of excavation and construction, archaeologists and engineers have collected countless precious artifacts from 13 different civilizations that existed in Turkey from 2,000 years ago. .

The story begins in 2009, when the hotel project was started on an area of ​​about 200,000 square meters in the center of Antioch (a city with a history from the 4th century AD).

A wall belongs to the ancient excavated city - (photo: The Museum Hotel Antakya).

The map of the land with the yellow section is the main hotel area of ​​the hotel, the red notes are the place where most of the ruins are located - (photo: The Museum Hotel Antakya).

Since the basement, workers have discovered strange ruins like antiquities beneath the land. Scientists are invited. The archeology continues to expand as other ruins continue to be discovered in the site.

The relics of 13 ancient and mysterious civilizations are constantly revealed when archaeologists and workers carefully dig more. Most notably, a great stone labyrinth at the end of the Roman era, bearing the ancient Mediterranean culture, when Latin, Greek and Aramaric speakers came here to trade gold and spices and religious exchange. In addition, there are overlapping traces of rich ancient cities once located here.

Beautiful stone art floor - (photo: The Museum Hotel Antakya)

Photo: The Museum Hotel Antakya.

The entire area contains so large monuments that if you want to survive them, the luxurious hotel design that the owner dreamed is no longer feasible. However, the businessman decided to " play big" by accompanying archaeologists, spending 3 years to create a new design that does not harm the ancient history.

Emre Arolat Architecture, the hotel construction unit, together with archaeologists identified an area with no relics in the land, the former location of the riverbed dried up Parmenius. It is the main area of ​​the hotel built. Taking advantage of some land without other relics, Antakya Museum Hotel is built with a rare combination, where visitors can both relax and visit ancient architectures preserved intact. .

After a decade of archeology and construction, Antakya Museum Hotel has just opened to welcome guests.