At a river bed Iznik to Turkey is found ancient church

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Today the Turkish city of Iznik ​​ is known first of all for the tremendous ceramics. Very few people know that historically this city was the important cultural center during the Byzantine and early Christian periods. These ancient roots proved in 2014 when the century basilica which has sunk at coast of the lake Iznik was found. How found an ancient structure? Incredibly, but ancient ruins remained unnoticed while the surveyors studying environment did not come across them. For the doctor Moustafa Shakhin, head of chair of archeology of department of history Uludagsky Gosudarstvenny university...