Ephesus welcoming more than one million every year, thanks to its modern cruise port, used to welcome even more people back in ancient times back in ancient times. Port of Ephesus used to be the most important income of Ephesus City in its golden times. Port of Ephesus was the...
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Attractions in Ephesus
Odeon of Ephesus
The Odeon building has the shape of a small theatre with a stage building, seating places, and an orchestra. It had two functional uses. First, it was used as a Bouleuterion for the meetings of the Boule or the Senate. The second function was the Odeum – a concert hall...
Continue reading...Double Churches of Ephesus
The Church of Mary in Ephesus is also known as the Church of the Councils because two councils of importance to the history of Early Christianity are thought to have been held in this church. The church is located nearby the lower entrance of Ephesus. the great ecumenical council was...
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The remains of a woman who may have been Cleopatra’s sister have been found in Turkey. In antiquity, ordinary people were not buried within the city. That privilege was only for special people – those with an aristocratic background, or people who did special things for their city. So the...
Continue reading...Mazaeus-Mithridates Gate of Ephesus
Mazaeus-Mithridates Gate is the triple gateway next to the Celsus Library which opens into the commercial agora forming its southeast gate. According to the inscriptions in Latin, it was built by two freed slaves Mazaeus and Mithridates in honor of Augustus, his wife Livia, his daughter Julia and his son-in-law...
Continue reading...Ancient Hospital of Ephesus
Today ancient hospital in Ephesus is somewhere in the middle of Ephesus Ancient City. Hospital is a three-roomed building and pointed with a road sign having a snake on it. Snake or better to say ”God Asclepios” was the symbol of medicine in the ancient world. The Romans learned a...
Continue reading...Trajan Fountain of Ephesus
In the second largest city of ancient Rome, Ephesus, the Fountain of Trajan was built to the north side of Curetes Street. In the 2nd century AD and it was dedicated to the emperor Trajan. The pool of the fountain had been adorned with statues of Aphrodite, Dionysus, Satyr, and...
Continue reading...Graveyard of Ephesus
Ephesus, the second most crowded city in the ancient world, used to have massive burial sites. Today it is unfortunate that we can not see most of them anymore because most of them were located outside the city’s central ”acropolis” which is visible today. Recent excavations revealed a gladiators’ graveyard...
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Today there is not a lot left from the stadium of Ephesus but this place once used to be one of the biggest entertainment venues in Ephesus. It can be seen by the end of the lower exit of Ephesus but the stadium is still under excavation and it can...
Continue reading...Gymnasium of Ephesus
The gymnasium was a place where athletes could train for competitions in public games, such as the Olympic Games. Gymnos means naked. Only men were allowed to enter, and train; they did so fully naked. Ephesus had four big gymnasiums and today the best-preserved one is nearby the grand theater....
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