Archaeologists found uncommon 2,000-year-old make-up and jewellery merchandise throughout excavations on the historic Roman metropolis of Aizanoi in Türkiye’s Kütahya province, studies mentioned Saturday.
The excavations, which have been carried out in collaboration with the Kütahya Governorate and Dumlupınar College, had been performed east of the Temple of Zeus, Professor Gökhan Coşkun, the pinnacle of the Archaeology Division at DU, informed Anadolu Company (AA).
2,000-year-old oyster shells used to retailer make-up merchandise discovered throughout excavations in Kütahya. (AA Picture)
Noting that they reached 2,000-year-old retailers on the market within the historic metropolis throughout excavations, Coşkun mentioned they discovered the remnants of a cosmetics and jewellery store.
“We discovered that the store bought fragrance, jewellery and make-up merchandise,” he mentioned, including that they discovered many fragrance bottles, items of jewellery and make-up.
“Girls had been all the time girls,” the professor mentioned, noting that they found blushes and eye shadows within the excavations.
2,000-year-old make-up merchandise discovered throughout excavations in Kütahya. (AA Picture)
“We all know that historic Romans saved their eyeshadows and blushes in oyster shells and we discovered quite a few oyster shells within the retailers we had been finishing up excavations in,” Coşkun mentioned.
The professor mentioned that archaeologists found make-up merchandise of 10 totally different colours and different types of hair equipment and jewellery.
2,000-year-old make-up merchandise discovered throughout excavations in Kütahya. (AA Picture)
Aizanoi, whose historical past dates again to three,000 B.C., was the principle settlement of the Aizanitis folks dwelling in historic Phrygia. Within the Hellenistic interval, the area alternated between being subordinate to Pergamum and Bithynia however got here below Roman rule in 133 B.C.
It has been mentioned that Aizanoi’s magnificent buildings, beginning with the development of the Temple of Zeus, made the town well-known.
Common excavations have been carried out on the web site since 1970.
Among the many ruins stands the Temple of Zeus, which stays the best-preserved temple devoted to Zeus in Anatolia, a theater with a capability of 15,000 folks and adjoining to it a stadium with a capability of 13,500, two baths, the world’s first industrial inventory market constructing, a columnaded road and 5 bridges, two of which nonetheless stand over Kocaçay creek.