Dorak
Dorak is a village in Mustafakemalpaşa ilçe (district) of Bursa Province, Turkey.
Dorak [1] is in northern Turkey, south of Lake Uluabat (also called lake Apaolyont, Turkish: Ulubat Gölü), 25 miles west of Bursa, approximately 20 miles south of the Sea of Marmara.
Dorak is the supposed origin of drawings of burial artifacts ("antiquities") of the Yortan[2] culture made by British archaeologist James Mellaart (known for his 'discovery' of the Neolithic settlement of Çatalhöyük), taken by unknown person/s from shallow graves nearby during the Greco-Turkish War of 1919–22. Mellaart was the focus of the Dorak affair, a scandal concerning an unseen and undocumented group of antiquities, the so-called "Dorak Treasure", which took place in the 1950s and 1960s in Turkey. Mellaart was expelled from Turkey for suspicion of involvement with the antiquities black market.
References
- ^ "Dorak Mahallesi, Bursa, Turkey". Google Maps. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
- ^ Kiamil, T. "The Yortan culture within the early Bronze Age of Western Anatolia (1980)". UCL home » Library Services » Electronic resources » UCL Discovery. University College of London. Retrieved 15 March 2019.