We hopped on borrowed bikes from our hotel and road about 4km to Ephesus. This place was spectacular. A city that has origins dating back to 6000BC! So much has happened there- 2 visits from Cleopatra, the capital of Asia Minor, the place where St. Paul preached to the pagans about Christianity, and the location where St. John brought the Virgin Mary after the death of Jesus, to name a few things. So, yes, a slightly significant locale. Some of the ruins we saw were from the 4 - 6th centuries. However, it was a Roman colony in the 12 and 1300's, when it had a population of up to 120,000, so a lot of what we saw is from that era. If anyone remembers the computer game Civilization - well - this place may have inspired me to dust off the old games.
Sarah standing in front of the remains of the Church of the Virgin Mary
Me in the theater where Paul preached to the Pagans. When Paul was there (both Paul and John spent a lot of time in what is now Turkey in the 1st century), the theater sat about 800 people. Under Roman times - which is what is in this picture, it held 24,000.
The Selcuk Library
Sarah standing in front of the remains of the Church of the Virgin Mary
Me in the theater where Paul preached to the Pagans. When Paul was there (both Paul and John spent a lot of time in what is now Turkey in the 1st century), the theater sat about 800 people. Under Roman times - which is what is in this picture, it held 24,000.
No comments:
Post a Comment