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...
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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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Today there is not a lot left from the stadium of Ephesus but this place once used to be one of the biggest entertainment venues in Ephesus. It can be seen by the end of the lower exit of Ephesus but the stadium is still under excavation and it can...
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The gymnasium was a place where athletes could train for competitions in public games, such as the Olympic Games. Gymnos means naked. Only men were allowed to enter, and train; they did so fully naked. Ephesus had four big gymnasiums and today the best-preserved one is nearby the grand theater....
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...
Continue reading...Pamukkale Town Nearby Ephesus
This site is exceptional by vurtue of its superlative natural phenomena – warm, heavily mineralized water flowing from springs creating pools and terraces which are visually stunning. It is on this outstanding natural site that Hierapolis, an exceptional example of a Graeco-Roman thermal installation, was established. The Christian monuments of...
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