2,000-year-old inscription with 'horse racing rules' discovered in central Turkey

Historians have recently deciphered a 2000-year-old inscription carved into a monument in memory of Lukuyanus, a Roman-era jockey, in Beyşehir, a district in the central Turkish province of Konya. The inscription was found on a rock-carved monument next to a horse figure dedicated to the jockey. Horse relief and entrance to grave room [Credit: Orhan Akkanat/Anadolu Agency]Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Professor Hasan Bahar from the...

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