12 Famous Turkish TV Shows
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...
March 27, 2022
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9 Outstanding Cities in Turkey for Foodie Travelers
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...
March 26, 2022
Surgery in Ancient Turkey
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,...
March 17, 2022
World’s Oldest Emoji was Discovered in Turkey
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...
March 15, 2022
The Siloam Inscription and Its Journey Back to Israel
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...
March 13, 2022
Top 7 Creative Museums of Turkey
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...
March 12, 2022
12 Interesting Alternatives to Traditional Museums in Istanbul
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...
March 7, 2022
Amazing Drone Footage Over Hierapolis Ancient City in Turkey
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...
March 6, 2022
A Tour Under the Rain in Ephesus
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...
February 24, 2022
Top 18 Sacred Attractions and Routes in Turkey
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...
February 18, 2022
Amazing Turkish Honey
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...
February 15, 2022
Thyatira the Misled Church
Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes Location and Importance of Thyatira Located on the Izmir – Istanbul road, Akhisar District was founded on the ancient city of Thyateira also known as Thyatira,...
February 13, 2022
Manisa City of Princes
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...
February 12, 2022
Philadelphia Church of Seven Churches from Revelation
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...
February 11, 2022
Galen the Greatest Doctor of Antiquity
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...
February 10, 2022
Sardis Ancient City
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...
February 9, 2022
Pergamon Ancient City
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...
February 5, 2022
Lagina Ancient City And The Temple of Hecate
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,...
January 30, 2022
Hecate the Virtuous and the Sinful
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...
January 28, 2022
Education and Literacy in Ancient Times
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...
January 22, 2022
Cats of Ephesus
Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes Cats have been beloved companions of humans for thousands of years, and the ancient city of Ephesus in modern-day Turkey was no exception. The cats of...
January 20, 2022
Sultanahmet Square
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...
January 11, 2022
Spice Bazaar of Istanbul
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...
January 10, 2022
Attractions Around Sultanahmet Square
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...
January 9, 2022
Turkish Tourism Of The Year 2021 in Numbers
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...
January 6, 2022
10 Ancient Philosophers of Anatolia
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,...
December 29, 2021
Slavery in Anatolia During Antiquity
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...
December 27, 2021
Menorahs in Ephesus
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 –...
December 22, 2021
Top Tourist Scams in Turkey
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...
December 21, 2021
Zerzevan Castle and Mithras Temple
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...
December 19, 2021
Differences Between Greek and Roman Theaters
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....
November 9, 2021
Gaius Julius Caesar
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...
November 6, 2021
Afro-Turks
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...
November 6, 2021
Roman Empire
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...
November 4, 2021
Nightingale Mountain
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...
October 16, 2021
Panayır Mountain
Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minute Panayır Mountain, which is also known as Pion Mountaion, is one of the two mountains surrounding Ephesus Ancient City. Panayır Mountain gets its name from the...
October 14, 2021
Cruises Are Back to Kusadasi
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,...
October 6, 2021
Nasreddin Hodja
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...
September 13, 2021
Top 10 Reasons To Visit Ephesus
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...
September 6, 2021
7 Best Places to Eat Ice Cream in Turkey
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...
August 30, 2021
5 Pieces of Advice From Ancient Romans For Staying Healthy
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...
July 23, 2021
Grotto of Apostle Paul in Ephesus
Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutes Apostle Paul spent nearly 3 years in Ephesus. Several Biblical events took place during Apostle Paul’s time in Ephesus such as Burning of the Books on...
July 11, 2021
Happy 21st of February International Tourist Guide Day
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes February 21st, International Tour Guides Day, is the day of the tourist guides. It was celebrated for the first time in the world in 1990 and...
February 21, 2021
Gladiators of the Ancient World
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...
December 23, 2020
Rufus the Doctor from Ephesus
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...
December 21, 2020
Polycrates of Ephesus
Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minute Polycrates of Ephesus was one of the earliest bishops of Ephesus. He served to Christian Ephesians between 130 and 196. He personally knew Polycarp of...
December 17, 2020
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...
December 9, 2020
Zenodotus of Ephesus
Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minute Zenodotus of Ephesus was a native of Ephesus who was born in the 3rd century BC during the time when Ephesus was being ruled by Ptolemaic...
December 9, 2020
Emperor Diocletian
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...
November 20, 2020
Emperor Augustus
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...
November 6, 2020
