25 Ocak 2016 Pazartesi

Nemrut-Turkey Map





Turkey is a great place to see and visit.






 Mount Nemrut has  great views, among Places to visit

Nemrut Dağı (Mount Nimrod) is one of Turkey's most amazing landmarks: an artifical mountain peaks framed by two great temples littered with colossal statues.

to has a history  for 2000 years, the mountaintop south of Malatya and north of Adıyaman  (map), was rediscovered by a geologist in November 1881,

 are two hierothesiums, shrines to the gods, with huge limestone statues of Apollo, Fortuna, Zeus, Heracles, and Antiochus I Epiphanes, King of Commagene.(colossal statues)

His kingdom was no more than a minor buffer state between the Roman and Persian empires, but Antiochus believed he was definitely big-league stuff, so he had his own huge statue seated with "his equals," the gods.

Between the hierothesiums is the artificial mountain peak of crushed stone, beneath which may be the actual tomb of Antiochus.and we may never it is estimated


















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