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Ancient sacred sites in İzmir, Turkey
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Claros
İzmir, Turkey
At Claros, on the Ionian coast of what is now western Turkey, a male priest descended each night into a vaulted underground chamber, drank from a sacred spring, and...
Colophon
İzmir, Turkey
Colophon was one of the twelve cities of the Ionian League, founded at the end of the second millennium BCE on the hills above the Aegean coast of what is now western...
Cyme
İzmir, Turkey
Cyme was the largest and most influential of the twelve Aeolian cities of Asia Minor — a harbor metropolis whose Apollo oracle was consulted in moments of civic crisis,...
Erythrai
İzmir, Turkey
Erythrai stood at the intersection of Ionian, Phoenician, and proto-Christian sacred traditions: home to the Erythraean Sibyl, one of antiquity's most celebrated oracular...
Karabel Relief
İzmir, Turkey
A rock relief carved three millennia ago by a Hittite vassal king watches over the Karabel Pass in the hills east of İzmir....
Liman Tepe
İzmir, Turkey
Liman Tepe is a prehistoric coastal tell on the Urla peninsula of western Turkey, settled continuously from the Neolithic through the Bronze Age....
Metropolis
İzmir, Turkey
Metropolis in Ionia carries an extraordinary depth of sacred history: Neolithic fertility cult, Bronze Age Hittite sacred center called Puranda, and then — uniquely among...
Myrina
İzmir, Turkey
Myrina was a prosperous Aeolian harbor city whose craftspeople produced thousands of terracotta figurines — deities, children's toys, theatrical figures — that served...
Notion
İzmir, Turkey
Notion was the harbour city of Colophon, positioned on the Gulf of Kuşadası in western Turkey as the coastal gateway to the oracle of Apollo at Claros....
Temple of Artemis
İzmir, Turkey
For over a millennium, the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus was the holiest sanctuary in the ancient Mediterranean world — and the largest building the Greeks ever constructed....
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