Apart from the rock-cut chamber tombs excavated in the valley between Mount Sodra and Hıdırlık Hill by a Swedish team in 1938, this is the first systematic archaeological excavation in the histori-cally important ancient city Mylasa. The city had been the capital city once in the ancient period and again in the Turkish period, this continuous occupation being the cause of much depredation to the ancient city. The first remains in the excavation area came to light during a foundation dig in 1993. These remains were those of a two-thirds broken sarcophagus and those of a wall of the Late Antiquity of which only the upper sides could be seen. During the 2004-2005 excavations, a rectan-gular pit, possibly a first burial site, was found in the northern side of the sarcophagus, and 5 rooms were fully exposed and 3 rooms were partially exposed with a floor made of large marble blocks that were moving northward from the sarcophagus. Among these rooms, the floors of the big one in the east, and of the two small rooms in the west of the big were covered with mosaics. A bronze steelyard rod of the 6th century AD, lamps from the Roman period, a rectangular shaped marble altar with a labrys on one front an a trident on the other, a satyr headed ceramic brazier, coins from the Hellenistic and Roman periods, Eastern Sigillata sherds, a full bowl, a gray colored aryballos and metal objects are important finds. The 2004-2005 excavations at Mylasa not only provide important evidence which can partly give information about the Hellenistic, Roman, late Roman and Byzantine periods of the ancient city, but they also, if belatedy, participate in the creation of a positive attitude towards the ancient Mylasa and archeology.