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World Heritage tombs in Turkey · Mysteria

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World Heritage tombs in Turkey

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🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex

Mount Nemrut (Nemrut Dağı)

Hellenistic Commagene (c.62 BCE under Antiochos I Theos) · Commagenian (Armenian/Greek/Persian syncretic) Hellenistic

Hierotheseion (tomb-sanctuary) of Antiochos I of Commagene (69–34 BCE), Nemrut Dağı tops 2,150 m peak with 50 m tumulus of crushed rock surrounded by three terraces bearing 8–10 m colossal seated…

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🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex

Ephesus Arsinoeion-Octagon — Sanctuary Terrace of Arsinoe

Hellenistic to Roman (288 BCE – 262 CE) · Ptolemaic to Roman Ephesian

Curetes terrace with 36 m Arsinoeion rotunda and Octagon princess tomb.