Rediscovering the Dark Mother of Anatolia: Century-Old Turkish Temple Reidentified as Rare Sanctuary of Hecate
YALVAÇ, TÜRKİYE — More than a century after its initial discovery, a modest stone temple nestled in the rugged mountains of southwestern Türkiye has finally yielded its ancient secret. Archaeologists announced that a structure long misattributed to the Greek agricultural goddess Demeter is, in fact, one of the rarest finds in classical archaeology: a dedicated…
