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Over 2,000 fragments, originally discarded during Roman demolition around AD 200, were painstakingly reassembled by experts ...

In the first century B.C, King Antiochus I of Commagene built a sanctuary unlike any of his predecessors. His unexplored tomb at Nemrut Dağ may show us more about death and worship in ancient Turkey.