Headless Statue

Our tour guide informed us that is was quite common to have the heads & bodies of statues to be two different pieces. That way, if someone fell out of favour, they removed their head and put a new on on the body.

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Ephesus, Turkey

August 16th 2012
According to Wikipedia... Ephesus was an ancient Greek city, and later a major Roman city, on the west coast of Asia Minor, near present-day Kusadasi, Turkey. It was one of the twelve cities of the Ionian League during the Classical Greek era. In the Roman period, Ephesus had a population of more than 250,000 in the 1st century BC, which also made it one of the largest c ... read more

Middle East » Turkey

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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