Turkey – Antalya

On the 3rd we went by tram to the Antalya Museum. The horse carriages shared the tram spot and had to move each time the tram arrived.

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The museum contained artifacts from southwest Turkey from stone age times through to the Byzantine Empire. Fantastic museum.

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Much of the  wealth we saw was collected from grave sites where the people were placed in the fetal position with their precious belongings.

DSC06990A section of this Hercules statue was at the British Museum. It  was recently discovered belonging to this statue and brought back and reattached.

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The detail on and the number of sarcophagi in the museum was amazing.

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