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Aphrodisias is one of the chief archaeological sites of the Greek and Roman periods and dedicated to the Goddess Aphrodite (Venus). Our interest in Aphrodisias has increased day by day since 1961. There is a story about Aphrodisias better known than the city itself.
In 1958, when the Prime minister of those years is going to activate Turkey’s biggest dam in Kemer, Hayat (life) Magazine quickly dispatches photojournalist Ara Guler to the nearby town. But Ara Guler and his driver lose their way. Eventually they find a coffeehouse in a remote mountain village which is called Geyre.
They cannot believe what they see. Local people are playing cards on a Roman column capital. As soon as sun rise, Ara Guler takes a look around the village, photographing all reliefs of figures on sarcophagi crushing grapes and driving a pair around the Hippodrome. He shows all these pictures first to writer and culture doyen Sabahattin Eyuboglu and then Rustem Doyuran, director of the Archaeological Museum, on his return to Istanbul. None of them is familiar with these pictures. Ara Guler decides to send them to the Architectural Review and in a short time he gets telegram from the American Journal, Horizon.
Guler returns to Geyre with the same driver. When the journal requests a well known writer, Prof. Kenan Erim is enlisted. Kenan Erim never stops writing about Aphrodisias from that day forward. Right up to his death. Geyre Foundation has financed excavations which culminate in new finds every autumn for many years. A centre of countless invaluable ruins, Aphrodisias up to now has been just about one-quarter unearthed. To complete of the task, another hundred years will be needed. Last year Sebasteion Sevgi Gonul Gallery was opened and Aphrodisias has drawn attention.
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Discover of Aphrodisias
