Archaeologists working at the ancient city of Hadrianapolis in Karabük province, northern Türkiye, have uncovered a 1,750-year-old pithos burial, officials said.
The discovery was made in Eskipazar district at Hadrianapolis Ancient City, a settlement used during the Late Chalcolithic, Roman and Early Byzantine periods. Excavations and restoration work are being carried out under the direction of professor Ersin Çelikbaş, head of the Archaeology Department in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Karabük University.
Inside the large storage jar used as a grave, researchers found a human skeleton along with a range of burial offerings, including seven ceramic vessels, an oil lamp, a coin, a knife and two bone hairpins.
Çelikbaş said the pithos burial provides important new data for understanding funerary practices in the region. He noted that such burials had not previously been documented in surface surveys or excavations in the inland parts of the western Black Sea region, suggesting the find may be the first of its kind there.
One of the ceramic vessels recovered from the 1,750-year-old pithos burial at Hadrianapolis Ancient City, Karabük, Türkiye, June 22, 2026. (AA Photo)
