Emperor Hadrian
Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes Emperor Hadrian, full name ”Caesar Traianus Hadrianus”, was born in 76 AD. He came from a Roman family who moved to Spain. His parents were from...
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Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes Emperor Hadrian, full name ”Caesar Traianus Hadrianus”, was born in 76 AD. He came from a Roman family who moved to Spain. His parents were from...
Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minute Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus holds a special place in Roman history, being the first emperor of the Roman Empire to be born outside Italy. Claudius...
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes The Roman Empire had its greatest time before Emperor Diocletian came to power. Pax Romana, ”Peace of Rome”, beginning with Emperor Augustus was already over and...
Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minute Emperor Trajan ruled the Roman Empire from the year 98 to 117. Trajan was born in Italica which is modern Spain’s Santiponce town. He became the...
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes Emperor Augustus was originally born as Gaius Octavius but because of some Roman traditions which might sound strange to us, he gained many names next to...
Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Domitian, the Roman Emperor between 81 and 96, was remembered for peace and stability, but was also under the influence of fear and serious paranoia. Some...
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Arcadian Street of Ephesus or Arcadian Road of Ephesus, which stretches from the theater to the port, connects the port gate to the center of Ephesus....
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Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Here are 25 things you can do when you visit Ephesus Ancient City;
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes Hierapolis is an ancient city in Turkey’s world-famous UNESCO world heritage site Pamukkale. Today I want to share some wisdom from the most famous philosopher born...
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Manisa is the ‘City of Princes’, where the sultans, who were the sons of the Ottoman emperor, spent their princely period. Manisa is an important historical...
Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Cassius Claudii Galenos or more commonly known as Galen was born in the year 130 in the City of Pergamon (Modern Bergama of today’s Turkey). His...
Estimated Reading Time: 10 minutes The ruins of the ancient city of Sardis, the capital of the Lydian Union, are in the Sart town of Salihli District in today’s Turkey. It...
Estimated Reading Time: 12 minutes The city of Pergamon, protected by Zeus, the father of the gods, and protected by the goddess Athena, who represents reason and intelligence; The Pergamon Acropolis...
Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes History of Basilica Cistern Since Istanbul has always been the crown jewel of powerful states in all ages of history. Byzantine and Ottoman emperors had cisterns...
Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Sultanahmet Square, which is among the most important squares of Istanbul, sheds light on how deep and rich the history of Istanbul is. Having hosted many...
Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes Sultanahmet Square remains to be one of the most visited spots in Turkey. Sultanahmet Square is situated in the center of the Historic Peninsula of Istanbul...
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Tourism was one of the sectors that suffered the most in 2020 due to the global pandemic. With the measures taken and the acceleration of the...
Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes In the 5th and 4th centuries B.C., the Anatolian economy was in very good condition and was experiencing its golden age in almost every field. With...
Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Julius Caesar was born in Rome in 102 BC. His mother was Aurelia Cotta and his father was Gaius Julius. It is claimed that Caesar took...
Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes Et tu, Brute? (You too, Brutus?) Roman Emperor Caesar Founded in the 1st century B.C. under the leadership of Augustus, the Roman Empire ruled in the...
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Backgammon, which was invented around 1400 years ago by Büzur Mehir who was the vizier of the Iranian shah Nevshiyan. Drawings on the backgammon represent units...
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes Ephesus, where St. Paul’s preached the Gospel and spread Christianity, a city which was visited by the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra and the Roman Emperor Markus Antonius,...
Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes From the beginning of the Ottoman Empire to the empire; I have compiled chronologically the important wars, treaties, political and cultural events of the 600-year period...
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes Probably many people have asked themselves this question before. What Happened to Ancient Sculptures Noses? If you have visited a museum before, you may have seen...
Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes I have previously published two lists featuring some great archeological structures from Turkey and received a great reaction from my visitors. I now publish the third...
Estimated Reading Time: 14 minutes History of Hierapolis Ancient City Hierapolis Ancient City was founded in the second century BC by the king of the Pergamon Empire, Eumenes the Second. According...
Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes Thanks for all the emails and comments you have sent me about the list of 8 unmissable archeological structures from Turkey. I decided to create another...
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes The Stone Bridge, which hosts 6 different civilizations in Adana and is known as the oldest bridge still in use in the world, stands with its...
Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes There are thousands of breathtaking attractions in Turkey when it comes to interests of archeology and history. I made a list for you featuring ”8 Unmissable...
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes The Legend of the Seven Sleepers According to the legend told in different versions in different sources, seven Christian young boys who lived under the reign...
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes During the excavations carried out in the Ancient City of Laodicea nearby Hierapolis (Pamukkale), a fountain built in the name of Emperor Trajan and a marble...
Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes How people used to shave? The shaver, which is in everyone’s home today, is actually a very new invention. If we go back a little, we...
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes Sacred flame of the goddess Hestia was kept in the Prytaneion of Ephesus ancient city. The first archeological excavations in Ephesus started in 1863. The Grand...
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Roots of Gladiators The early gladiators were criminals sentenced to death for their crimes. These people were taken to the arena or the theater for their...
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Rufus the doctor was an Ephesian Greek who was born during the era of Emperor Trajan. Rufus was a follower of the famous physician Hippocrates and...
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes Ephesus’ name comes from the word ‘Apis’, which means bee. There are two entrances of Ephesus known as the upper gate of Ephesus and the lower...
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes Hermione of Ephesus was not born in ancient Ephesus city. We know this since she was known to arrive to Asia Minor then to Ephesus looking...
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes The Mazeus and Mithridates Gate in Ephesus is dated to year 4 AD during the Emperor Augustus period thanks to its inscriptions with almost all of...
Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minute Maximus the Magician from Ephesus was the leading advisor and magician of Emperor Julian (331 – 363). Maximus was born to a wealth family in Ephesus...
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes The famous term known as “herostratic fame” comes from the incident related to Herostratus who was the arsonist burned the temple of Artemis in Ephesus. World...
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes The Temple of Artemis in Ephesus was burned down by Herostratus on the same night when Alexander the Great was born. Ephesus of Asia Minor was...
Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minute Via Egnatia had the length of 1100 km (685 Miles). Ancient road Via Egnatia used to connect the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire Byzantium, later Constantinople...
Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minute Emperor Septimius Severus was born in Leptis Magna. Leptis Magna was once part of the Carthaginian Empire and then became a city of Roman Libya. Septimius...
Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutes Turkey, standing on some of the most major fault lines of the earth, has always been struck by earthquakes. Earthquakes are mostly caused by large elastic...
Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes Saint John came to Ephesus after he was given the work of spreading words of Christ to Anatolia. He spent several years in Ephesus performing many...
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Jewish Community of Ephesus It is a known fact that there was a massive local Jewish population in Asia Minor. Ephesus, being the largest city of...
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Saint John the Evangelist spent a significant amount of time in the land of Asia Minor what is called Anatolia or Turkey today. He performed several...
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