Marmaray Tunnel Excavators Uncover Constantinople's Theodosian Harbor
Yenikapı, Fatih, Istanbul, Turkey
ESTIMATED62% CONFIDENCEAccounts of the Marmaray excavation (Grand Sirkeci[3] Hotel's history page and the Harvard 'Urban Imagination' exhibit) place the discovery of the silted-up harbor at Yenikapı in November 2005, without a more precise day recorded.
Digging for Istanbul's Marmaray rail tunnel at Yenikapı, workers strike the silted-up remains of the Theodosian Harbor, a Byzantine-era port that would go on to yield 37 shipwrecks and roughly 100,000 artifacts.
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