ENGLISH FOR TOURISM  II (TURİZM İÇİN İNGİLİZCE II) - (İNGİLİZCE) Dersi WORLD HARITAGE SITES IN TURKEY soru detayı:

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Provide information about the Mount Nemrut.


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Mount Nemrut comprises the Hellenistic mausoleum of Antiochus. In the first century BC, the Roman-Persian king Antiochus I of Commagene (a kingdom north of Syria and the Euphrates) ordered a grave and temples to be built on this site. On two sides of the mountaintop terraces were set up for meters high statues of the gods and himself. The statues represent Apollo, Fortuna, Heracles and Zeus. The heads of the statues have fallen down in the course of years, and have been erected again on the place they fell. They are all about 2 meters high. It is suspected that the grave of Antiochus himself is hidden under the mountaintop, beneath a heavy layer of debris.