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Excavation ongoing places tagged “taurus” in Turkey · Mysteria

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Excavation ongoing places tagged “taurus” in Turkey

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🇹🇷 Turkey

Excavation ongoing

🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex

Temple of Zeus Olbios at Uzuncaburç (Olba-Diocaesarea)

Hellenistic to Early Roman (Seleucid to Julio-Claudian) · Isaurian–Cilician priest state, Seleucid and Roman Cilicia

Taurus priest-kingdom hilltop Corinthian Zeus temple 6×12 with Zeus lightning entablature, Olba.

🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city

Sagalassos

Hellenistic to Early Byzantine (classical antiquity to c.640 CE earthquake) · Pisidian → Hellenistic → Roman Imperial → Byzantine

Pisidian highland Roman city at 1,600 m with restored Antonine Nymphaeum and cliff theatre.