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Cyaneae

Bütün Türkiye resimleri için buraya basınız veya Başka antik yerleri için buraya basınız
This gallery is in the SW Aegean and W Med topic
My page with very many Turkish cities OR Other antique cities

This Lycian town is claimed to date back to the 5th century BC. However, I found very little information about is. Most of the remains are claimed to be Roman, the Lycian tombs being the exception to that rule. I have the feeling that a longer visit would have left me with more pictures, but that might have implied walking up from nearby Yavu. As it was, even with a car it was quite a climb. At some point the road became too bad for the car, I walked the last kilometer or so.
In a book I have I saw a beautifully detailed map of the city, most of it on a nearby hill. I now guess the map has been drawn at some time, after which nature decided to take over. It did: the hill is, for as far as I could fathom, fully overgrown. I came across a herd of goats, a couple of hundred as the shepherd boy told me, but they were no match for the shrubs and trees that had taken possession. I managed to climb to a point that seemed to be the peak of the hill, but pictures I took there convincingly – I think - show that further exploration was impossible.
Back home I read in another book there were more sarcophagi here than in any other Lycian town. Though I saw many of, I missed most of the special ones, with indeed fine decorations. To see more, you’d best do some Googling.
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Cyaneae Rock graves October 2016 0213.jpg
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