Ephesus

This morning we toured Ephesus, in Turkey, which was a Greco-Roman city from 1500BC to 700AD.  It was the largest city of its time with about 250,000 people.  It was built in a valley on the coast.  There was a river running through the city which allowed the sewage to drain.  In time the river left enough silt in the way that the sewage was no longer able to drain.  People started getting sick and those who survived picked up all the marble that they could carry and left.  Can you imagine what it would be like for that many people to just up and move?

This is one of the pieces that is most intact of what they have excavated.  Ephesus was built on a fault line, so every 100 years or so there is a huge earthquake.  These earthquakes damaged the buildings greatly.

The thing that most interested mom was that there is a statue.  Included in the statue is a round globe. They knew long before Galileo that the earth was round and yet some how it was forgotten and lost in time.