Antalya Museum

The Hall of the Gods. All these statues and many others in the Museum were found at Perge by Turkish archaeologists in the last 50 years......only because Victorian era British and French explorers were unaware of Perge otherwise these statues would be decorating the British Museum or the Louvre

Turkey Tour 2010 Blog 5

October 18th 2010
Sunday 17th October. The weather behaved itself being sunny and bright living up to the translation of the region's ancient name of Lycia, meaning the land of light. We'd planned to go to Side (pronounced Seed-eh) as it was the only remaining archaeological site in the vicinity of Antalya that we hadn't visited. We took the ultra modern tram to the Otogar and then a bus to Side. The journey from ... read more

Middle East » Turkey » Mediterranean » Side

Modern Turkey was founded in 1923 from the Anatolian remnants of the defeated Ottoman Empire by national hero Mustafa KEMAL, who was later honored with the title Ataturk, or "Father of the Turks." Under his authoritarian leadership, the country adopt... ... read more

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