The most beautiful place I have ever seen. Your feet felt ancient just by walking on its soil. This wasn't a museum, it was alive and breathing. An ancient Greek city, which was second in size only to Rome itself during the Roman period. Originally home to the Celsus Library, whose front wall still stands, and the Temple of Artemis (completed in 550 B.C.), one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, before it was destroyed in 401 A.D. Ancient, ancient, ancient. I've never seen so many ancient things in my life.
“I have set eyes on the wall of lofty Babylon on which is a road for chariots, and the statue of Zeus by the Alpheus, and the hanging gardens, and the colossus of the Sun, and the huge labour of the high pyramids, and the vast tomb of Mausolus; but when I saw the house of Artemis that mounted to the clouds, those other marvels lost their brilliancy, and I said, “Lo, apart from Olympus, the Sun never looked on aught so grand.” - Antipater of Siden
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