Unearthed: Zeus Temple gate in Turkey's ancient city of Magnesia

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The Zeus Temple in Magnesia, an ancient city located in western Turkey, will be restored to its full glory despite missing some parts that are on display at Berlin’s Pergamon Museum

Archaeologists found the entrance gate for the Zeus Temple in the ancient city Magnesia, located in Aydin’s Germencik district in western Turkey. The excavations that continue in the Ortaklar neighbourhood are being led by Associate Professor Gorkem Kokdemir of Ankara University Archaeology Department.TRT World

“He spends two years in Magnesia and digs up the Zeus Temple, the one we rediscovered and is now in the news, in the agora,” Kokdemir says on the phone. “It is significant because of architectural history. It is dated back to the 3rd century BC, one of the earliest temples of the Hellenistic period.”

“In ancient cities people worship not just one deity, they worship multiple gods or goddesses. In Magnesia the first deity is Artemis, and the second deity is Zeus,” he clarifies. Parts of the Zeus Temple in Magnesia are in Berlin, while most of it is being dug up in Turkey’s Aydin province.

 

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