On the one hand the fertile soil of Anatolia, and on the other the sapphire beauty of the Aegean, Turkey. Seferihisar’s three-thousand-year-old story has been shaped by both earth and sea and influenced by many of the cultures which have succeeded one another. Here there is a 15th-century medrese (theological school), there the weary ruins of […]
Four years ago, while digging the foundations of a new building at Yokusbasi in Bodrum, an ancient tomb was discovered. When archaeologists lifted the 700 kilo stone lid of the sarcophagus they saw the perfectly preserved skeleton of a woman. She was wearing a gold diadem in the form of a myrtle branch and flowers […]
I Georgios am the captain of this ship belonging to the Church and priest in that same Church. We set sail from the island of Samos for the Eastern Mediterranean hearing provisions needed by the imperial army warring against the Persians… There are six of us on this journey: I the captain Georgios, Demetrios the […]
Milas lies on the lower slopes of Mount Sodra, from whose quarries came to the marble which adorns so many ancient cities in southwest Turkey. This region between the Buyuk Menderes (the ancient Meander) and the Dalaman rivers was controlled by the Carians. They were succeeded by the Persians, Macedonians, and Seleucids before becoming part […]
As your plane circles down towards Dalaman, you realize that the view from your porthole has changed from sky blue to pine green. Then, as it straightens, you catch sight of many islands scattered around the innumerable bays of the Gulf of Fethiye, and you imagine yourself sailing before the wind amongst them. As you […]
In ancient Turkey, the Iron Age corresponded to the first millennium BC. At that time western Anatolia was inhabited by three civilizations, Lydia, Caria, and Lycia. Caria encompassed all of the today’s province of Mugla and part of Denizli and Aydin, extending westwards as far as the Menderes (Meander) river and eastwards to the Dalaman […]
