Historians have discovered what they believe to be the shrine and mosque where the internal remains of Suleiman the Magnificent were interred in 1566, SIA reports quoting the AA.
A joint Turkish-Hungarian team uncovered structures in southern Hungary where Suleiman’s organs were buried following his death during a Balkans campaign.
The site near Szigetvar, which was under siege by Suleiman’s Ottoman army when he died, includes a “sultan-like structure”, researchers said at a news conference in Budapest.
“Hexagonal structures found during the excavation proves that this site is a sultan-like structure,” Ali Uzay Peker, a Turkish academic from Middle East Technical University’s architecture department, said.
“The mosque and the shrine were built side by side. The fact that a minaret could not be found during the first excavation indicates that this is a shrine. At this stage we can say that we found the site of Suleiman’s shrine”.