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Overview of the colossal heads on the West Terrace of Mount Nemrut, a tomb-sanctuary built by King Antiochus I Theos of Commagene in the 1st century BCE on one of the highest peaks of the Eastern Taurus mountain range in what is now south-eastern...

The Byzantine Iviron monastery on Mount Athos, northern Greece. Founded in the late 10th century CE.

Head of Hercules-Artagnes-Ares on the western terrace of Mount Nemrut, a tomb-sanctuary built by King Antiochus I Theos of Commagene in the 1st century BCE on one of the highest peaks of the Eastern Taurus mountain range in what is now southeastern...

The square and stepped altar platform located at the eastern side of the East Terrace of Mount Nemrut in southeastern Turkey.

View of Mount Arbel from Magdala.

The start of the 600-metre climb to the top of Mount Nemrut in southeastern Turkey.

The eastern side of the Tumulus of Karakus with two columns still standing upright. One column has traces of a relief, the other is decorated with an animal sculpture. The Tumulus of Karakus is a funerary monument (hierothesion) of the Commagene...

A 19th century CE oil painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme depicting Moses receiving the Ten Commandments from God on Mt. Sinai.

Together, the Ararat Mountains straddle the borders of what are present-day Turkey, Armenia, Iran, and Azerbaijan. Mt. Ararat (“Greater Ararat”) rises to a height of 5,137 m (16,854 ft). Mt. Ararat’s neighboring mountain, Little Ararat (“Ararat...

Artists impression of the Battle of Waush (714 BCE), between the Neo-Assyrian Empire and the Kingdom of Urartu, by Marek Szyszko. Copyright, republished with permission from Ancient Warfare Magazine / Karwansaray Publishers.