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Turkey - Greek and Roman Sites

We wanted to see a lot of places in Turkey, so for the ancient sites we used Insight Travel to arrange tours. It was unusual because each day was different - guides, busses and drivers, members of the tour, but it worked very well.	Ephesus	From the entrance, you don't see much to impress you,
A few columns and rubble, but be patient!	The smaller theater for the government meetings	Intensely red poppies
Water pipes of terra cotta for the extensive water system.	Wonderful workmanship	Details hiding everywhere
Smaller theater, the Odeon, had a capacity of 1400	Stairs out of the theater	Figs grow wild everywhere
The columns were held together by lead, so later they were knocked down for the lead to make bullets.	Our guide (Yuri, but not spelled that way) talkes about the origin of the symbol we still use for medicine: two snakes facing each other. As snakes shed their skins are are "reborn," so patients were to shed their illnesses and regain health.	Greek legos
The fountain of Trajan	The ever present cats on a mosaic floor	Temple of Hadrianus
The men's latrine, obviously cold in winter!	The Library of Celsus, second only to Alexandria at the time. Tetragonos Agora, the commercial section is on the right.	Earthquakes devastated the city several times, and stacked up rubble fills the area.
Marble Street from the large theater to the library square	The large theater seats 24,000, the biggest in the ancient world. It has been used for concerts until recently.	This gives you an idea of the size of the large theater
The symbol of the bordello in Ephesus - there was a tunnel from the library to the bordello!	The Artemis temple was the largest in the world - note the number of columns. Not much has survived all the earthquakes and fires, but one column was reconstructed	The temple was built on a foundation of coal in a swamp and burned when oil ignited the roof and the foundation
On top of the column are nesting storks	The home reputed to be the final home of Mary	The house