"Turkey's first photography museum" was opened in İstanbul on 16 November 2011,  with an exhibition dedicated to the "Masters of photography from the Republican era", which followed the revolution of Kemal Ataturk in the 1920s. The museum is the masterpiece of famous Turkish photographer Gültekin Cizgen and run by the...
Ashure is an authentic and unique dessert widely known in the Middle East and made by the Christians, Jews and the Muslims alike. It is also called “Noah’s Pudding” a reference to the legend of Noah’s Ark. Traditionally; it is made on the 10th of the Islamic month of...
The Cinema and Theatre Museum created by Turker Inanoglu, the Chairman of the Türker Inanoglu Foundation (TURVAK), moved from Kavacık to its new location in Beyoglu, near Galatasaray Lise early this year. The three-story museum is full of rare artefacts from Turkey’s cinematic history and includes a 50,000 plus...
The Etruscan numerals shown on the so-called “Tuscania Dice” have been read as shown in the table below: The numeral 1 which other readers have read as “thu”, I read as “pir” since the Etruscan name appears more like a PR rather than a ThU. Additionally, we have a good...
Below is an Etruscan Mirror:  From a book by Giuseppe Foscarini, “La Lingua degli Etruschi”, Item 11, p. 31. This mirror has two Etruscan inscriptions as names of a man and a woman as shown above. I first trancribe and describe the man’s name by reading the name from right-to-...
Etruscan Mirror:  From a book by Giuseppe Foscarini, “La Lingua degli Etruschi”, Item 12, p. 32-33. This mirror has two Etruscan inscriptions as names of a woman and a boy as shown above. I first transcribe and describe the boy’s name: a)   HERAKELI which identifies first with the name HERAKLEUS which...
In Part-1 of this study, we noted that Sardinia was called Ichnusa (the Latinised form of Greek Hyknousa), Sandalion, Sardinia and Sardo by the ancient Greeks and the Romans.  And the term SARDONIC was the adjective of Sardinia.  We examined many Sardinia related names and words. Among them, we...
In my Facebook, a valued friend, Ms Tina Frigerio, shared with me her photos of an Etruscan pyramid that, at its top, seems to have been used as an altar for Etruscan religious gatherings - during its usable days. With a note to me, she suggested: "I think that...
I have been interested in the ancient Turanian identity of Sardinians ever since I saw some pictures of Turkish BALBAL-like stone statues, Menhirs and Dolmens in Sardinia. To me, they were the remnants of the civilization of the ancient Turanian peoples.  Recently, I have seen some very interesting and...
INTRODUCTION Regarding the ethnic identity of ancient Etruscans, confusing writings have been produced since the times of ancient Romans and Greeks. To me the ancient confusion was intentional because ancient Greeks, Romans and the Semitic people jointly wanted to destroy the ancient Turanian civilization and obliterate the Turanian identity of...