From National Geographic:Aphrodisias Martin GrayWhen archaeologist Kenan Erim first saw the site in
From National Geographic:Aphrodisias Martin GrayWhen archaeologist Kenan Erim first saw the site in Turkey where the classical city of Aphrodisias once stood, it was a tumbled ruin, weed-choked and overgrown. But over the next two decades (1966-1988), his painstaking excavations revealed an astonishingly complete city - a “miracle in marble” with plazas, public baths, and a Temple of Aphrodite (above) - that flourished for seven centuries before wars and earthquakes forced its abandonment. -- source link
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