🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Oracle of Claros
Hellenistic to Late Roman ~300 BCE–395 CE · Greek (Colophonian) then Roman Ionian
Underground water-oracle of Apollo where prophet drank sacred pool to versify prophecies.
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🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Hellenistic to Late Roman ~300 BCE–395 CE · Greek (Colophonian) then Roman Ionian
Underground water-oracle of Apollo where prophet drank sacred pool to versify prophecies.
🇮🇩 Indonesia · Temple complex
Mataram Hindu-Buddhist c.850–900 CE (peak Rakai Kayuwangi) · Central Javanese Hindu (Trimurti Shivite)
Largest Hindu temple complex in Southeast Asia (c.850 CE) of Mataram Pu Sanjay, with 47 m Shiva terraced shrine (Candi Siwa) surrounded by 238 smaller shrines in concentric mandala, opposite Sewu…