My new guidebook to Bodrum and ancient Caria has just been published! The Secrets of Bodrum and Ancient Caria is a guidebook devoted to the region of Turkey known as Caria in the past.

Some time ago, I promised you a text about Iznik, ancient Nicaea. However, this one is not about the times of the Eastern Roman Empire but a later period.

Yarımca-Bağtepe mosaic, now in Zeugma Mosaic Museum in Gaziantep, for #MosaicMonday, part 5 A deer (mixed with a fox, I don't know)...

This text is a fragment of a guidebook to Istanbul: "Byzantine Secrets of Istanbul":

Stratonikeia was a part of ancient Caria, discussed in my guidebook "The Secrets of Bodrum and Ancient Caria":

Historic remains of city walls stretching to Tavsan Island have been exposed as the sea level recedes in Bodrum. These walls are the remains of ancient Myndos, discussed in my guidebook "The Secrets of Bodrum and Ancient Caria":

The İnandık Vase in the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations in Ankara. Dating back to the 17th century BC, the terracotta vase is decorated with reliefs depicting a marriage ceremony arranged according to Hittite traditions.