Zeugma is the ancient site where time stopped and the faces smiled at us. The most outstanding feature is that we have faces in Zeugma. They aren’t dreams, they are faces of real people. Zeugma public left us their faces. We see them and they are looking at us. Zeugma mosaic museum, the ancient site…
Underground cities of Cappadocia; the hidden places of first Christians
As I mentioned before, Cappadocia has a historical value for all human being history. Not only the historical value, and also the religious importance in Christianity is another value of this place. First Christians ran away from Roman Empire’s cruel approach to Christianity so they discovered that they could hide here and build new settlement…
Caunos rock tombs of kings: A graveyard of a dynasty
Caunos is one of the most important ancient sites of Turkey because it was a capital that was between Karia and Lykian region. Caunos is located on Dalyan channel of Muğla province. It is known that they were built in BC 4th century and they are the graveyards of a dynasty. Unfortunately they were damaged…
Smyrna: The city of Amazon queen
Smyrna was one of the well known sites of ancient era. It is told that Smyrna was one of the Amazon queens and this city was built in the name of her. Today’s Izmir had a meaning with this historical background. If you can travel in time, Amazons can be most interesting societies in ancient…
A mythological love: Achilles and Penthesilea
This love story is dated back to Troy war epic. Amazon queen Penthesilea joined the Troy war as an alien of Troy. She was good at fighting so everyone paid attention to this warrior but they didn’t know that this warrior was a female warrior. She got so famous that Achilles wanted to fight with…
An imperial site: Ani ancient site
If you are looking for a place where time stopped, Ani ancient site is this place. It used to be a capital of Armenian Kingdom and it also used to be an important destination on Silk road. Briefly it was a busy and crowded city once upon a time. But today it is a lonely…
Issos war : Alexander the Great moved to Asia
Isos ancient site was the place where Persians and Macedonian Empire made a war. Macedonians, Alexander the Great, won the war. They had the chance to move to Asia. Isos ancient site is located at Erzin county of Osmaniye province. Alexander the Great had faced to Persian Empire when he moved to Asia. Both sides…
Halikarnassos: A gate to the history
Halikarnassos was one of the magnificent cities in ancient era. The thing that made here unique was a monument. This area had been dominated by Persians for years and Governor Mausolos reconstructed the city and it became a glorious city. After his death, a monument was built in the name of him in BC 353.…
Miletos: The site that main sciences were born
Philosophy was one of the main branches that shaped ancient times. Miletos was the ancient site where Thales, Anaximandros and Anaximenes developed a new trend that is valid for today. They were named as ” nature philosophers” and today’s nature understanding is dated back to their period. There used to be a philosophy school that…
Yedikule Dungeons: A time capsule of Istanbul
Istanbul is one of the cities that have buildings like perfect time capsules inside. One of them is Yedikule Dungeons because many well known sultans were imprisoned here. Actually it was built in Byzantine period but it was extended in Ottoman era. Sultans were taken here when any uprising existed. Towers were built for various…