No place was worse hit than Antakya, the site of the ancient city of Antioch, where 90 percent of its buildings were lost and more than 20,000 people died in the town and the surrounding Hatay ...

Back to homepage / Live news Turkey's Antioch rises from the ruins, stone by stone Antakya (Turkey) (AFP) – The old priest painted a warning on the cracked walls of his shack: "Twelve children ...

The Antioch Greek Orthodox Church brought Christians together in Turkey's Antakya for centuries until last year, when an earthquake killed dozens of them and sent hundreds more fleeing.

The city of Antakya, known as Antioch in ancient times, has been destroyed many times by earthquakes.

The city of Antakya, known in antiquity as Antioch, was at the crossroads of civilizations for centuries. After the Feb. 6 earthquake, many of its centuries-old monuments and sites lie in ruins.

Once a home to a myriad of civilisations, the southern city of Antakya lies in ruins after last Monday’s 7.8-magnitude quake.

But ancient Antioch, a stone's throw from Syria, is not just any old town, insisted the old priest. "Antakya has existed for thousands of years.

No place was worse hit than Antakya, the site of the ancient city of Antioch, where 90 percent of its buildings were lost and more than 20,000 people died in the town and the surrounding Hatay ...

Once home to civilisations, fabled Antioch left in ruins Turkey, like Syria, is on one of the world’s most active fault lines ...

Turkey's Antioch rises from the ruins, stone by stone Antakya (Turkey) (AFP) – The old priest painted a warning on the cracked walls of his shack: "Twelve children were born here!