All About Ephesus
All About Ephesus
Gladiators of Ephesus
Located 300 m from the stadium where they fought for their lives, the gladiators’ mass grave was found to cover an area of about 20 square metres. In it, experts uncovered a three-metre-deep layer packed with over 2,000 bones and 5,000 smaller fragments which are thought to have belonged to...
Continue reading...Letter to the Church of Ephesus in Revelations
To the angel of the church in Ephesus, write this: ‘The one who holds the seven stars in his right and walks in the midst of the seven gold lampstands says this: ” I know your works, your labor, and your endurance, and that you cannot tolerate the wicked; you...
Continue reading...Frescoes of Ephesus
Fresco is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid or wet lime plaster. From prehistory to the current days, artistic developments reflect the societies in which they occur and their geographic locations. The history of fresco painting is closely related to, and a reflection of, the history of...
Continue reading...Location of Ancient Ephesus Today
Today Ephesus stands on the western part of modern Turkey. Ephesus is 15 kilometers from Kusadasi port and city. Ephesus is located in Selcuk county of Izmir city of Turkey. Ephesus is 80 kilometers from Izmir and Izmir Adnan Menderes Airport. It takes 8 hours of driving from Istanbul to...
Continue reading...Ephesus Museum of Vienna
Since 1895, Austrian archaeologists have been excavating the ruins of Ephesus. Up to the year 1906, numerous recovered objects of high quality were removed to Vienna, objects which can be seen today at the Ephesus Museum, an annex to the Collection of Greek and Roman Antiquities. The highlights include the...
Continue reading...Ephesus Told by the Others
Jodi Magness, an archaeologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who has visited Ephesus more than a dozen times, says the city “is almost like a snapshot in time. You get the sense of what walking down the street of a Roman city was like without having...
Continue reading...Judaism in Ephesus
Capital of Ionia, Asia Minor, and later, under the Romans, capital of Asia Proconsularis. Many Jews lived in this large Greek city during the whole of the Hellenistic period. Josephus (“Contra Ap.” ii. 4) traces the granting of citizenship to the Jews of Ephesus and of entire Ionia back to...
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