Bodrum Peninsula, Turkey

Bodrum, Turkey

Amphora, like we saw on the bottom of the ocean.

Spare parts in the restoration lab.

Spare parts in the restoration lab.

Bodrum Castle

They salvaged some old columns for the stonework of the castle.

Bloomin' Castle Cactus

Old (ancient) anchors, also used for ballast.

Old (ancient) anchors, also used for ballast.

The Olive Garden

The Olive Garden

Elizabeth, Mike, and Cathy, Bodrum, Turkey

Peruvian Pepper Tree

Peruvian Pepper Tree

Cistern Sentinel
(Roughtail Rock Agama)

Roughtail Rock Agama

They apparently still use these cisterns.

Cistern

Cistern

Cistern

This was not very common in western Turkey.

An old house and a cistern

A load of limbs?

They used to sing calls to prayers in these towers. Now they blast it out, distorted and loud.

Ephesus, where the Bible book of Ephesians came from. About 250,000 people lived here once. Now you can walk for a mile or so through the 2000-year-old ruins.

Ephesus

Ephesus

Ephesus

Ephesus

Ephesus

Ephesus

Ephesus Theater

Ephesus

Backstage at Ephesus Theater

The Turkish missile frigate TCG KEMALREiS, German-built.

The Turkish missile frigate TCG KEMALREiS, German-built.

Medusa is upside down. This is one of the big cisterns in Istanbul. They used this as a base for one of the columns.

The Basilica Cistern, Istanbul
The Basilica Cistern, Istanbul

The Basilica Cistern, Istanbul
The Basilica Cistern, Istanbul

Around 3,400 years ago, Theodosius Thutmose III built the Temple of Karnak, just outside of Luxor. Around a thousand years later, Theodosius from Constantinople brought an obelisk from the Temple of Karnak home and planted it near the race track.

He had to cut it into three pieces. The bottom two pieces seem to have been misplaced, or maybe broken. This is the top piece, still at the Hippodrome in Istanbul. Spires from the Blue Mosque are in the background.