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Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Leto, the mother of Artemis and Apollo, went into labor which too for 9 days. On the eighth day, on May 6th, Artemis was born, and...
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Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Leto, the mother of Artemis and Apollo, went into labor which too for 9 days. On the eighth day, on May 6th, Artemis was born, and...
Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minute Important Corona Update from Turkey was declared by the Ministry of Health on the 26th of April. Starting from today obligatory mask-wearing is no longer needed...
Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minute I recently had the chance to be the tour guide of a famous Indian actress Karunya Ram and her beautiful sister. We had a great private...
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes I was recently contacted by Judith Sudilovsky from Jerusalem Post newspaper which is the most read English newspaper in Israel and asked to contribute to an...
Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minute Today I had an amazing experience in Ephesus ancient city during my tour. It was not a crowded day indeed me and my guests were the...
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Unfortunately, most of the Philadelphia ancient city remains under the modern settlement called Alaşehir today. In the Roman Period, Philadelphia was called “Little Athens” due to...
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: 4 minutes You may have started to hear the name of Hecate when things such as spells and witchcraft are mentioned from time to time in today’s popular...
Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Literacy goes back thousands of years, but the popularity of literacy in the world is a very new phase. Thanks to the Industrial Revolution, the cheapening...
Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Stray cats seem to have established their own kingdom in the Ancient City of Ephesus. Cats of Ephesus, which have always been the guardians of Ephesus,...
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: 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: 7 minutes Philosophy is the study of fundamental truths. For this purpose, philosophy opens up ways to deal with the views and concepts of daily life, science, art,...
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: 2 minutes Menorah has many symbolic meanings. Its first meaning is to symbolize the “Perpetual Light”. After God created heaven and earth, he first said “Yehi ‘Or –...
Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutes Hercules, one of the most well-known characters of Greek and Roman mythology, who is also known as Heracles has settled in cultures all over the world...
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Boji The Wandering Dog Of Istanbul travels by public transport and he changes 25-30 stations a day while traveling 35 km. Boji, which travels around Istanbul...
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Greek and Roman theaters are the most commonly seen ancient theaters in Anatolia. There are also some Greco-Roman theaters that are hybrids of these two styles....
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Afro-Turks are usually the children and grandchildren of those who settled in Anatolia from Africa mostly came through the slave trade or other means during various...
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: < 1 minute Nightingale Mountain is 12 km from Selcuk district. The importance of Nightingale Mountain in terms of archeology and religious history is that the ancient city of...
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes UPDATE October 14, 2021 Today Viking Cruise made its 3rd visit to Kusadasi Cruise Port. News sources confirmed that several other cruise liners such as Norwegian,...
Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes A brief look at the life of Nasreddin Hodja, who was a Turkish satirist and he is thought to have lived in the 13th century, during...
Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Ephesus is a UNESCO World Heritage Site Seeing a world heritage site is not an everyday adventure for many of us. Ephesus Ancient City and surrounding...
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Turkey is a destination which can be visited all year round but it might be more popular especially during summertime. Ice cream is a very popular...
Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minute Soranus the Physician from Ephesus was born in the Roman capital of Asia Minor which was Ephesus city. He was believed to be born in the...
Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minute Mahmut Orhan is one of the most popular Turkish musicians around the world today. Most of his productions made it to the top of the music...
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 The Battle of Ephesus in 1147 took place in between the crusader army assembled by the Kingdom of France leaded by Louis VII of France and...
Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minute Epistle to the Ephesians is the forty-ninth book of the Bible and the tenth book of the New Testament. It was written by Paul to Ephesians....
Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minute Chersiphron and his son Metagenes were natives of Crete. They were the architects of the second temple of Artemis in Ephesus. They began their work in...
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes The Battle of Ephesus in 498 BC was one of the turning points of the Ionian Revolt which took place between 499-493 BC. Many Greek cities...
Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minute Apostle Gaius is one of the most important people of Ephesus since his name was mentioned in Holy Bible. Gaius, whose hospitality I and the whole...
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes Apollos was a first century apostle who was born as Jewish and later converted into Christianity. His name was mentioned several time in the New Testament....
Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minute Otrera was the daughter of the god of the eastern winds Eurus. She was the mistress of god of war Ares. As we know Otrera created...
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Double-headed axe ”labrys” was an important symbol in the ancient Mediterranean civilization. As far as we understand labrys axes were commonly used in rituals. Early forms...
Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Ancient and late antique Mediterranean worlds were strange places where magic was a common daily practice believed by millions of people. Believers used several types of...
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: < 1 minute Memnon of Ephesus was the bishop of Ephesus during one of the most important Christian era events of the city which was the third ecumenical council...
Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minute Evenor who was another painter from Ephesus was the father of Parrhasius. Parrhasius of Ephesus did not fall far from the three and became a painter himself...
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 Alexander Lychnus of Ephesus was a poet. He was born in Ephesus around the first century BC. Strabo, the famous geographer, philosopher, and historian from Anatolia,...
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes People of all nations and religions visit the House of Virgin Mary in Ephesus. I love how Muslims, Christians and people of all world stand together...
Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes Even though Paul started his life as a Jewish-born man of Tarsus and turned into a Christian hunter in his adulthood, he was confronted by Jesus,...
Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minute It was the year 2019 when I shot this Amazing Time-lapse Video of Celsus Library in Ephesus. It was a very busy day with 3 cruise...
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes Philostratus of Athens speaks about T. Claudius Flavius Dionysius of Ephesus as the subject in his work “Life of the Philosopher”. Philostratus tells that he was...
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes Ephesus hosted some of the best and most well-known philosophers of ancient times such as Hipponax and Heraclitus. Also, one of the most important philosophical schools...
Estimated Reading Time: 16 minutes History Olive Oil The oldest historically discovered data on olive trees dates back to about 40 thousand BC. In the archaeological studies carried out on the...
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