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An ancient city believed to date back 2,700 years has been discovered in Turkey's western Çanakkale province after three years of work in the area, archaeologists announced Wednesday. The ancient city of Limnai on the Gallipoli was discovered by a team of archaeologists from Turkey's Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University (ÇOMÜ). The existence of the ancient city was already known, although the exact location was not certain. Excavation works for the city first started in the Salt Lake plain in 2015 and continued in the Beşyol plain where the city was found. Speaking about the city's history, the head of ÇOMÜ's Ancient History Department Assoc. Prof. Dr. Reyhan Körpe said: "Only pieces of bowls, crockery and tiles can be seen on the surface since the architectural remnants of the city are underground. However, these pieces give us information about the field the city covered, as well as when the city was established and when it was desolated. " The … [Read more...] about Archaeologists discover 2,700-year-old ancient city on Turkey’s west coast

Here is what you can expect from our festive edition of the magazine. The countdown to Christmas has officially begun you can break out the festive films and mince pies without feeling guilty. Our cover this month has a distinctively festive feel to it - think boxing day walks and snowy picture postcard images.In the issue this month's edition we have former Strictly champion Ore Oduba who talks about how they are going to celebrate his son's first Christmas and how Ore feels about hosting the Strictly live tour. The fashion pages are all a sparkle with outfits perfect for Christmas get togethers and New Year's Eve celebrations, and for interior inspiration there is a round up of the best Christmas decorations to give your home that winter wonderland feel.We have some fantastic interviews this month, Elaine Hammond talks to The Gruffalo author Julia Donaldson about her adopted county Sussex and Horsham District Year of Culture, while Sam Dixon-French has interviewed comedian Romesh … [Read more...] about The December etc Magazine is out now

0 Have your say Foo Fighters are to play at a festival in Scotland next year. The band are the second headliners to be unveiled for Glasgow Summer Sessions 2019.They join The Cure, who are making a return to Scotland after 27 years.READ MORE: The Cure revealed as first headliner for Glasgow Summer SessionsGeoff Ellis, chief executive of organisers DF Concerts, said: “To welcome Foo Fighters to Bellahouston Park for the first time is so exciting for music fans all over Scotland, as they are, to this day, one of the best festival headliners in the world.“With their outstanding back catalogue, this is bound to be an unmissable show.“This announcement, as well as the previous reveal that legendary band The Cure will make their return to Scottish soil after 27 years on Friday August 16, truly cements Glasgow Summer Sessions as an integral part of the Scottish live music calendar for 2019.“With more to come, fans should stay tuned for the full … [Read more...] about Foo Fighters to play Glasgow as part of Summer Sessions

Perhaps Roamer is an aging romantic (certainly the former!) but I sometimes muse, while wandering the highways and byways of Northern Ireland, about folk who’ve wandered there in days gone by. In Enniskillen, where I was brought up, I often consider hymnwriter Henry Francis Lyte, schooled there in the early 1800s. Engrossed with the dark and silent expansiveness of Lough Erne at night I imagine the iconic lines forming in young Henry’s mind – “Abide with me, fast falls the eventide. The darkness deepens, Lord with me abide.”Was it Fermanagh’s abundant forests, regularly encamped with travelling-people, that inspired Samuel Beckett’s vagabonds to hold their surreal dialogue under a tree whilst Waiting for Godot?And did the Atlantic clouds constantly billowing up the Lough Erne basin stir Oscar Wilde to write “every wandering cloud that trailed its ravelled fleeces by” in his Ballad of Reading Gaol? Fermanagh’s countryside … [Read more...] about A town famed for its flowers, factories facial soaps and mathematical formulae

An Auckland cancer clinic is helping to take the stress out of waiting times with a 45-minute, fast-track service for neck lumps. Patients at Mercy Radiology Neck Lump Clinic go from ultrasound to diagnosis in less than an hour - saving time, money, and worry. "The fact that one person can turn up to one appointment, not need to go to five different appointments, and walk away with a diagnosis or a treatment plan, is huge for that patient," says Dr Lloyd McCann. New cancer test could save thousands of lives NZ's cancer death rates worse than Australia's due to inaccessibility 'It's going to take me out': Patrick Gower opens up on cancer fears After the ultrasound, patients at Mercy Radiology undergo a needle sampling or biopsy, which is looked at by a pathologist there and then. That's immediately followed by a consultation with a surgeon. "Fifty percent of our patients we can reassure after that appointment that they have a benign diagnosis, there's something there that doesn't need … [Read more...] about Ultrasound to diagnosis in an hour: Auckland’s speediest cancer clinic