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Lycian rock tombs carved into the cliff face at ancient Myra in Demre, showing temple-facade architecture stacked in rows

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Lycian rock tombs carved into the cliff face at ancient Myra in Demre, showing temple-facade architecture stacked in rows
Ancient Ruins

Demre and Ancient Myra: Rock Tombs, Roman Theater, and the Real Santa Claus

The cliff face at Myra looks like an apartment building carved by someone who expected their tenants to have wings. Rows of Lycian rock tombs

April 14, 2026
The Great Theater of Ephesus carved into the hillside with 25,000 seats rising in a semicircle
Ancient Ruins

The Great Theater of Ephesus: 25,000 Seats Carved Into the Hillside

The Great Theater at Ephesus is the first thing you see and the last thing you forget. It sits at the western end of the

April 14, 2026
Visitors walking along the marble-paved Curetes Street in Ephesus with ruined columns and monuments on both sides
Ancient Ruins

Marble Streets of Ephesus: Walking the Roads of a Roman Capital

The streets of Ephesus are paved in marble, and you walk on them. Not reconstructed marble, not replica paving, but the actual stone surface that

April 14, 2026
The single reconstructed column of the Temple of Artemis near Selcuk with a stork nest on top and the Basilica of St. John visible on the hill behind
Ancient Ruins

Temple of Artemis, Ephesus: One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

A single column stands in a marshy field on the outskirts of Selçuk, reassembled from fragments and topped with a stork’s nest. Behind it, the

April 14, 2026
The facade of the Temple of Hadrian on Curetes Street in Ephesus with Corinthian columns and the Medusa relief arch
Ancient Ruins

Temple of Hadrian, Ephesus: The Most Delicate Ruin on Curetes Street

The Temple of Hadrian is not the largest structure at Ephesus. It is not the most famous — that distinction belongs to the Library of

April 14, 2026
Hadrian's Gate triple marble arch in Antalya with Corinthian columns and the old town visible through the arches
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Hadrian’s Gate, Antalya: The Roman Arch That Still Works as a Door

Hadrian’s Gate stands in the middle of a modern street in Antalya, flanked by apartment buildings and taxi stands, and people walk through it to

April 14, 2026
The Hellenistic gate towers of Perge ancient city with Roman-era courtyard behind them
Ancient Ruins

Perge Ancient City: One of Rome’s Best-Preserved Urban Layouts in Turkey

Eighteen kilometers east of Antalya, just off the highway toward Side, the ancient city of Perge spreads across a flat plain backed by low hills.

April 14, 2026
The north harbor of Phaselis with clear turquoise water, ancient stone walls, and pine-covered hills behind
Ancient Ruins

Phaselis: An Ancient Port City Where Pine Forest Meets the Sea

Most ancient cities in Turkey ask you to choose between history and landscape. You visit ruins on a dusty hillside, or you swim at a

April 14, 2026
Five remaining columns of the Temple of Apollo in Side silhouetted against the Mediterranean at sunset
Ancient Ruins

Temple of Apollo in Side: Five Columns on the Edge of the Mediterranean

Five columns and an architrave fragment. That is what remains standing of the Temple of Apollo in Side, on a stone platform at the very

April 14, 2026
Submerged stone walls and ruins of Kekova sunken city visible through clear turquoise water from a boat
Ancient Ruins

Kekova Sunken City and Simena Castle: Where History Sits Below the Waterline

Somewhere around the 2nd century AD, an earthquake lowered part of the northern coastline of Kekova Island into the Mediterranean. The Lycian settlement that had

April 14, 2026

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