Ephesus

Excavations at Claros Sanctuary have been the longest-running excavations ongoing under Ege University's Archaeology Department, says excavation head Associate Professor Onur Zunal, while shedding light on how Claros emerged as a prophecy center in the past.

The ancient city of Ephesus in the western province of İzmir, which sees an influx of tourists every year, welcomed approximately 2.2 million people in 2023, according to the data of the Ephesus Archaeological Museum.

The sales of museum cards, known as MüzeKart, reached 2.1 million in the first seven months of 2023, the Culture and Tourism Ministry has announced.

According to the statement made by the ministry, there was a record increase in MüzeKart sales, the price of which was recently fixed to 60 Turkish Liras.

The historic city of Ephesus has been recreated in the virtual world by a professor, and three of his students are also present in the virtual world serving as tour guides.

Prof. Dr. Ahmet Denker, a faculty member at the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Bilgi University, decided to bring the ancient city of Ephesus to the virtual world.

The countdown has begun for the first phase of the Ephesus Ancient Canal Project, which is set to make the ancient city reunite with the sea again after 2,500 years in İzmir's Selçuk district.

The ancient canal project, carried out in the ancient city of Ephesus, is expected to make a great contribution to the country's tourism.

Excavations continue to unearth the largest theater in Thrace, located in the Ancient City of Perinthos in the Marmara Ereğlisi district of Tekirdağ.

It has been reported that major progress has been made in the first phase of the Ephesus Ancient Canal Project that will bring the ancient city in the western province of İzmir's Selçuk district together with the sea again after 2,500 years.

The Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, which is one of the seven wonders of the world and whose ruins were looted after being destroyed by the Goths in 263 and which no one could see as a whole, has been revived in the digital world.

The statue of Artemis, one of the Greek mythology goddesses, which was found in 1963 in the ancient city of Thermai Thesos in the western province of Manisa's Kula district and kept in storage, has been put on display for the first time at the İzmir Archeology Museum after half a century.

During the ongoing excavation works in Claros, located in İzmir and considered as the oldest oracle center in the world, some pieces of monumental statues of Apollo, Artemis and Leto have come to light.

The pieces have been moved to an area where conservation works will be carried out.