Things to find in Turkey
7 legends, 1 cave, 1 gem & mineral ground on the free Club 49 adventure map
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- Ani Legend
A medieval Armenian capital standing empty on the Turkish side of a closed border. Between 961 and 1045 it was the seat of the Bagratuni kingdom and possibly held around 100,000 people, though scholars argue that figure is too...
Open it on the map · Read the story - Derinkuyu underground city Cave
The largest excavated underground city in the world. Under the soft volcanic tuff of Cappadocia in Turkey, people cut a warren eighteen storeys and some sixty metres deep, with stables, wineries, chapels, ventilation shafts and...
Open it on the map - Ephesus Legend
One of the great cities of the ancient Mediterranean, and it died of silt. The Temple of Artemis here was one of the seven wonders of the ancient world and took 120 years to build; one column now stands in a field. The Library of...
Open it on the map · Read the story - Eskisehir meerschaum Gem & mineral ground
Turkey holds essentially the world’s only significant supply of true meerschaum, the feather-light white stone (“sea foam”) dug from pits around Eskisehir and carved into the famous pipes that colour to amber with use. Miners...
Open it on the map - Göbekli Tepe Legend
T-shaped limestone pillars in circular enclosures, carved with lions, boars, foxes, snakes and vultures, and some with arms, hands and loincloths, so they are figures rather than posts. Built between roughly 9500 and 8000 BC,...
Open it on the map · Read the story - Hattusa Legend
The Hittite capital, taken as such by King Labarna around 1650 BC when he renamed himself Hattusili after it, and held until the kingdom collapsed about 1180 BC. The Hittites were an empire the equal of Egypt and Assyria and they...
Open it on the map · Read the story - Mount Nemrut Legend
At 2,150 metres in the Anti-Taurus, King Antiochus I of Commagene built himself a tomb-sanctuary in 62 BC and ringed it with seated statues eight to nine metres tall: himself, two lions, two eagles, and gods deliberately fused...
Open it on the map · Read the story - Pamukkale Legend
A white hillside 2,700 metres long, 600 wide and 160 high, built out of terraced pools that look like poured cotton, which is what the Turkish name means: cotton castle. Seventeen hot springs between 35 and 100 C carry dissolved...
Open it on the map · Read the story - The Ararat anomaly Legend
Turkey’s highest mountain, 5,137 metres of ice, and the place Genesis names as the ark’s landing. Expeditions have gone up since the 1800s, and aerial photographs from the 1940s and 50s showing a dark shape in the ice on the...
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