The remains of a woman who may have been Cleopatra’s sister have been found in Turkey. In antiquity, ordinary people were not buried within the city. That privilege was only for special people – those with an aristocratic background, or people who did special things for their city. So the...
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Buying Ceramics Nearby Ephesus
People of modern Ephesus still go on making ceramics just like the ancient ancestors of them mastered in it. Also one should not forget that it is forbidden in Islam (most common religion in Turkey) to make paintings so for centuries Turkish artists found ways to create beautiful calligraphies to...
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Top Ten Phrases That You Will Need While Visiting Ephesus Merhaba (Mer-ha-ba) – Hello Evet (Eh-vet) – Yes , Hayır (H-eye-uhr) – No Lütfen (Lewt-fen) – Please Tamam (Ta-mam) – OK Bira lütfen, (Bee-ra Lewt-fen) Beer please Su (Soo) – Water Çok ucuz (Chok oo-juz) – Very cheap Çok pahalı...
Continue reading...Mazaeus-Mithridates Gate of Ephesus
Mazaeus-Mithridates Gate is the triple gateway next to the Celsus Library which opens into the commercial agora forming its southeast gate. According to the inscriptions in Latin, it was built by two freed slaves Mazaeus and Mithridates in honor of Augustus, his wife Livia, his daughter Julia and his son-in-law...
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Today ancient hospital in Ephesus is somewhere in the middle of Ephesus Ancient City. Hospital is a three-roomed building and pointed with a road sign having a snake on it. Snake or better to say ”God Asclepios” was the symbol of medicine in the ancient world. The Romans learned a...
Continue reading...Trajan Fountain of Ephesus
In the second largest city of ancient Rome, Ephesus, the Fountain of Trajan was built to the north side of Curetes Street. In the 2nd century AD and it was dedicated to the emperor Trajan. The pool of the fountain had been adorned with statues of Aphrodite, Dionysus, Satyr, and...
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...Graveyard of Ephesus
Ephesus, the second most crowded city in the ancient world, used to have massive burial sites. Today it is unfortunate that we can not see most of them anymore because most of them were located outside the city’s central ”acropolis” which is visible today. Recent excavations revealed a gladiators’ graveyard...
Continue reading...Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
Six of the seven wonders of the ancient world were described by Philon of Byzance in a manuscript entitled “Péri tôn hépta théamatôn” (About the seven wonders of the world). This manuscript including six layers only described six constructions. The seventh, the mausoleum of Halicarnassus, is only described in 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...
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