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A 66-million-year-old gastropod fossil was found at a 5,000-year-old settlement in Ankara; ancient inhabitants may have brought it there

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A 66-million-year-old gastropod fossil was found at a 5,000-year-old settlement in Ankara; ancient inhabitants may have brought it there

PC: Anadolu Agency of Turkey A 66-million-year-old gastropod fossil has been discovered at an archaeological site in Ankara, Turkey. Excavators uncovered the fossil during work at Kulhoyuk in the Oyaca neighbourhood of Ankara’s Golbasi district. Researchers believe it dates to one of the final phases of the Tethys Sea, an ancient body of water that … Read more

Turning waste into treasure: Garbage workers create a 40,000-book library from people’s discarded books | World News

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Turning waste into treasure: Garbage workers create a 40,000-book library from people's discarded books | World News

What started as a daily activity of collecting trash on the streets of Ankara slowly turned into one of Türkiye’s most inspiring community projects. Sanitation workers in the city’s Kankaya district noticed that readable books were often thrown away with household waste. Instead of sending them to landfills, workers began putting the books aside in … Read more