Aphrodisias
Martin Gray
National Geographic
'When
archaeologist Kenan Erim first saw the site in Turkey where the
classical city of Aphrodisias once stood, it was a tumbled ruin,
weed-choked and overgrown. But over the next two decades (1966-1988),
his painstaking excavations revealed an astonishingly complete city—a
"miracle in marble" with plazas, public baths, and a Temple of Aphrodite
(above)—that flourished for seven centuries before wars and earthquakes
forced its abandonment.'
