Sabancı Foundation has been supporting the Lovers of Metropolis Association (MESEDER) since 2003 to contribute to scientific excavations in the region. The Foundation maintained its support in 2022. The "City of the Mother Goddess" Metropolis opened its doors to visitors in 2015 as an archaeological site.

So far in the excavations, a 2,500-year-old headless woman figurine, a Roman Bath and Palaestra, a cult site for Zeus, Dionysus mosaics, corridors, water cisterns, over 11,000 small artifacts, and traces of a large public building decorated with mosaics as well as the town center. The excavations in 2022 revealed a large Roman public building decorated with geometric patterns, which is thought to have been built during the city's expansion.