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This is the 13th year of St Olaf College’s work at Antiochia ad Cragum, near modern Gazipa\u015fa<\/a> (ancient Selinous) in Antalya Province, Turkey. \u00a0Since 2012 St Olaf has worked\u00a0with the\u00a0Antiochia ad Cragum Archaeological Research Project\u00a0(ACARP).<\/p>\n Antiochia ad Cragum has a long and storied history,\u00a0beginning as a pirate haven in the late second\u00a0century BCE, becoming a Roman city in 41\u00a0CE, reaching its height around 200 CE, and finally reaching its end around 800 CE. \u00a0 Throughout, Antiochia remained an important commercial and administrative center. Even after Christianity had spread across Anatolia and many sites began to decline, Antiochia prospered, continuing its role as a social and political center, though now the seat of a Christian bishop. This rich site has remained largely unexcavated until the 21st Century when,\u00a0in 2007, ACARP gained permission from the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism to begin work. \u00a0Since then ACARP teams\u00a0have uncovered or identified a large bath complex with a 1,600 square-foot mosaic floor<\/a>, the largest in this part of Turkey, a dirty joke\u00a0toilet mosaic<\/a>, a Christian basilica, a colonnaded street, monumental tombs, a temple, one of the earliest Christian churches and baptistry complexes ever discovered in Turkey and numerous other structures yet to be identified.<\/p>\n Since 2013, the St Olaf team of students and field supervisors concentrated on opening new parts of the site in the religious and public areas\u00a0on the Acropolis. In 2018, the St Olaf team uncovered an early Christian baptistry and early Imperial\/Hellenistic fortifications, used by the Cilician pirates. All of their progress uncovering the early 5th-8th Century Christian worship complex and 1st Century fortress can be seen through their\u00a0research blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n During the 2026 season, the St Olaf team will continue work on the Christian and Pirate sections of the Acropolis, focusing on domestic quarters and fortifications.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2014\/06\/DSCN2261.jpg” alt=”View of Antiochia ad Cragum site, looking on baths and temple” align_tablet=”center” align_phone=”” align_last_edited=”on|desktop” _builder_version=”4.16″ animation_style=”slide” animation_direction=”left” animation_duration=”500ms” animation_intensity_slide=”10%” animation=”left” sticky=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2014\/06\/DSCN2255.jpg” align_tablet=”center” align_phone=”” align_last_edited=”on|desktop” _builder_version=”4.16″ animation_style=”slide” animation_direction=”left” animation_duration=”500ms” animation_intensity_slide=”10%” animation=”left” sticky=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Welcome to the St Olaf Antiochia 2026 website! This is the 13th year of St Olaf College’s work at Antiochia ad Cragum, near modern Gazipa\u015fa (ancient Selinous) in Antalya Province, Turkey. \u00a0Since 2012 St Olaf has worked\u00a0with the\u00a0Antiochia ad Cragum Archaeological Research Project\u00a0(ACARP). Antiochia ad Cragum has a long and storied history,\u00a0beginning as a pirate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":741,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-150","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P4Iz8A-2q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/antiochia2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/antiochia2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/antiochia2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/antiochia2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/741"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/antiochia2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/antiochia2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3655,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/antiochia2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/150\/revisions\/3655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/antiochia2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}