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Silver tetradrachm from Athens, 479-454 BCE. O: Head of Athena. R: Owl and olive branch.

Silver tetradrachm from the reign of Alexander the Great, 336-323 BCE. O: Head of Hercules. R: Zeus seated on a throne holding an eagle.

Macedonian gold stater from the reign of Philip II, 359-356 BCE. O: Head of Apollo. R: Charioteer driving a racing biga.

Silver stater from Corinth, 525-500 BCE. O: Pegasus. R: Incuse square of swastika design.

Silver siglos from Persia, kingdom of Achaemenids, 5th-4th century BCE. O: King with bow and quiver. R: Incuse oblong.

Silver stater from Aegina, 550-500 BCE. O: Sea turtle. R: Incuse square with eight sections.

Termessos was a Pisidian city built at an altitude of more than 1000 meters in the Taurus Mountains. Termessos is now part of of Gulluk Dagi National Park located within the province of Antalya in a valley hidden between mountains...

Aspendos was an ancient Greco-Roman city of Turkey. According to later tradition, city was founded around 1000 BC by Greeks who may have come from Argos. Aspendos is known for having the best-preserved theatre of antiquity.The theatre...

Turkey hides incredible treasures, it is not difficult to walk a trail in the mountains and find places like this. Especially in Lycia (where the photo was shot), here there are great relics of the ancient world, much of which is present...

Myra is an ancient town in Lycia. The city has two necropoli of Lycian rock-cut tombs in the form of temple fronts carved into the vertical faces of cliffs at Myra: the river necropolis and the ocean necropolis. The ocean necropolis is...