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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: 3 minutes In our country, especially long-distance trekking routes and trails have attracted a lot of attention lately. The long journey of Saint Paul, one of the most...
Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes Turkey is the second biggest TV show exporter in the world, producing a lot of productions every year. Some of these TV shows reach worldwide fame...
Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutes Gastronomic tourism, one of the popular trends of recent years, is perfect for those who love to travel and eat. I will try to point out...
Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes “Knife is good if medicine doesn’t work, fire is good if the knife doesn’t.” Roman saying Although the history of surgery is as old as humanity,...
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes The “smile” emoji on the 3,700 years old jug, which was unearthed by the Turkish – Italian team of archeologists in Karkamış, one of the most...
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes I would like to tell you about the story and journey of the Siloam Inscription, which is a very important historical artifact for Hebrew and Biblical...
Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes Concept and modern museums, which specialize in expanding areas of interest, changing technologies, and certain subjects, are candidates to become popular museums with new exhibition techniques...
Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes Istanbul is an amazing cultural mosaic because it has been the center of many states for centuries. You can see the minarets and synagogues rising just...
Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minute I recently guided a tourist group in Hierapolis Ancient City. A person in this group happened to have a sophisticated drone with him. We shot a...
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: 9 minutes Anatolia, the first place where civilization was born, became a landscape where the events that shaped world history and magnificent cities with magnificent sacred monuments came...
Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes You already know what an important part of Turkish culture honey is when you come across the legendary Turkish breakfast which is dominated by honey. Also...
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: 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: 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: 4 minutes Anatolia hosted many cult areas in ancient times. One of them was Lagina Hecate Sanctuary. The mysterious Goddess Hecate believed to hold the key to Hades,...
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: 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: 4 minutes Spice Bazaar, one of the oldest covered bazaars in Istanbul, attracts the attention of many local and foreign tourists with its orientalist atmosphere. So much so...
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: 4 minutes Wherever we are in the world, low incomes and low living standards have taught people little survival tactics and tourists are always the easiest prey! Here...
Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutes Zerzevan Castle, which was built by the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantine Empire) as a military base on the ancient trade route between Diyarbakır and Mardin, and...
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes 2021 was the year of easing restrictions of the Covid outbreak and archeological teams all around Turkey started to make it back to the excavations in...
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: 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: 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: 3 minutes While I was researching for this article, I realized that what people believed and did for staying healthy thousands of years ago was not that different...
Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes I read a nice quote about cheese in a book that said, “When milk goes to sleep, it becomes cheese.” As a Turkish cheese lover, I...
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: 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: 4 minutes The wide geography of the Byzantine Empire (Today’s Anatolia and Asia Minor) which included different cultures and its cultural structure shaped by the acceptance of Christianity...
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