The
amphitheater of Efes.
This view from atop its 15,000
seat amphitheater looks down upon its once columned marble
avenue that led to its Aegean harbor. The silting in of the
harbor lead to Efes' decline. The waters of the Aegean now
can be barely seen in front of the last line of mountains.
Efes
The most magnificent ancient
ruins I have ever experienced are those of Efes in modern day
Turkey.
This Greco-Roman city, which
was home to as many as 250,000 people at its zenith, once imprisoned
the Apostle Paul whose biblical Letter to the Ephesians perpetuates
the name of this totally abandoned site.
