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Ilker Mimiroğlu

Ilker Mimiroğlu

Turkish archaeologist and art historian (Assoc. Prof., Necmettin Erbakan University) leading excavations at the biblical site of ancient Lystra.

Sep 22, 2026

14:32
Tell us what you've uncovered there.
14:35
First, we know the location of the church at the beginning of the excavation, because the Kronen articles say that, and we can see that some stones of abscess can be seen first.
14:46
And we choose the location first and start the excavation, but we understand that it is not a small church, because the articles say that it is not a very big church.
14:58
And during the first season, we cannot finish it.
15:03
And then second season, we understand inside the church, in the Seljuk period, a small chapel built in the center of the church.
15:13
And now we cannot finish the church excavation because the church courtyard is going to the west and we are trying to complete the excavation of the church.
15:29
but not yet finished.

8 MINS LATER

23:14
If everything goes perfectly, you have all the money that you would want as an archaeologist, we hope, in a perfect situation, if we come back in ten years to Lystra, what will it be like? What are you hoping for?

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