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One understands from the passage that, although many explorations of ancient ruins were made in Western Turkey in the nineteenth century, ----.
During the Ottoman period, a small but increasing
number of European travellers began to explore and
study the sites of ancient cities in Western Turkey. In
this regard, the first systematic exploration was made
in 1811 by Captain Beaufort of the British Royal
Navy, who mapped the Mediterranean coast of
Turkey and identified some of the ancient sites there.
This was followed by a number of other
archaeological expeditions, including Charles
Fellows's explorations, from 1838 to 1844, of the
southwestern part of the country, called “Lycia” in
antiquity. But the most exciting find was Heinrich
Schliemann's rediscovery of Troy in excavations that
began in 1870. Since then, most of the ancient cities
of Western Turkey have probably been unearthed
and studied, at least to some extent. The more
famous of them, such as Pergamum, Ephesus,
Sardis and Aphrodisias, are now the subjects of
large-scale excavations and restorations that have
recreated a fragmentary image of their former
splendour.