Sumer Atasoy

Prof. Emeritus Sümer Atasoy (PhD Istanbul) is a classical archaeologist and a specialist in museum studies and cultural heritage. He has excavated many sites in Anatolia, including Amisos/Samsun, one of the principal Greek colonies on the southern Black Sea coast. For more than ten years he has been director of excavations at Tios, the only Greek colony in the southern Black Sea not to have been overbuilt.

Prof. Emeritus Sümer Atasoy (PhD Istanbul) is a classical archaeologist and a specialist in museum studies and cultural heritage. He has excavated many sites in Anatolia, including Amisos/Samsun, one of the principal Greek colonies on the southern Black Sea coast. For more than ten years he has been director of excavations at Tios, the only Greek colony in the southern Black Sea not to have been overbuilt. See less