Stadiasmos Patarensis - In our article on Prof. Dr. (em) Sahin Sencer we already briefly mentioned the sensational find of the Stadiasmos Patarensis.

Coins - In our recent article "History of Coinage as a Means of Payment," we discussed the history of coinage. The question remains: what techniques were used in coin production?

Aulus Cornelius Celsus - Always people tried to work in the field of medical treatment to help others when injured or helpless. Some big steps could be done in Greek and Roman period because of development in research and for the first time experiences were written down.

Coinage - During our travels through the ancient cities and the associated visits to museums in the various regions of Asia Minor, we often encountered coin collections in the exhibitions that were already used as a means of payment in antiquity.

Pamphylia was an ancient region on the central southern coast of Asia Minor, roughly situated between the modern cities of Antalya and Mersin, bordered by the Taurus Mountains in present-day Turkey.

Pisidia – The name Pisidia also referred in antiquity to a region in Asia Minor, geographically stretching from the coastal plain near Antalya in the south to the lakes near present-day Burdur, after crossing the Taurus Mountains.

Limes – Rome's Border with the Barbarians – A companion book to the permanent exhibition at the Limes Museum in Aalen. Published by the Württemberg State Museum Stuttgart. With 342 illustrations, mostly in colour.

Between the 2nd and 4th centuries AD, the heyday of the so-called Imperial Baths, hand-made bricks were used for most buildings in the Roman Empire (see Sardis).

Artemisia was a daughter of Lygdamis. Around 480 BC, she ruled Halicarnassus, the modern-day Bodrum, as guardian of her son Pisindelis. She was subject to the suzerainty of the Persian King Xerxes I.

Large parts of what is now Turkey were already settled in the Paleolithic period, so the Neolithic period began quite early, particularly in the east of what is now Turkey.

Our tours through Anatolia had led us to the so-called Phrygian Valley next to Afyonkarahisar, a term for the group of people settled there from the West.

The quality of execution in the Roman Empire is absolutely comparable to the technology of road construction and in some cases very cleverly combined with road construction is the construction of the water supply systems in the cities of the empire.

In our article about the origin of the Celtic immigrants to Asia Minor, we had already roughly written about the local division of the tribes. Basically, the ethnic group of the Celts who immigrated to Asia Minor is also referred to as Galatians.

The supply of the larger cities of the Roman Empire - Rome already had 800,000 inhabitants in the first century AD - could only be ensured through structural adjustment of the surrounding rural regions, in the course of which rural estates close to the city or on trade routes began to meet the growing demand through market-oriented forms of production.

In ancient times, Potnia Theron - the ruler of the wild, was considered a female deity who, as the mistress of wild animals, was responsible for protecting them.

"The invention of recording systems is a milestone in human history. Any find that can help shed light on these milestones is therefore an important tool in understanding the progress of mankind," says researcher John MacGinnis in Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 2014. What is the background of this sentence?

During our travels and visits of ancient cities there was always one name mentioned: Alexander the Great. Everybody learned about Alexander during history lesson at school for being the leader of one of the biggest empires ever.

It was Apollonius who gave the ellipse, the parabola, and the hyperbola the names by which we know them. The hypothesis of eccentric orbits, or equivalently, deferent and epicycles, to explain the apparent motion of the planets and the varying speed of the Moon, are also attributed to him.

Herodotus was an ancient Greek historian  who lived in the 5th century BC (c. 484 BC – c. 425 BC). He was born in Caria, Halicarnassus ( Modern day Bodrum, Muğla, Türkiye). He is regarded as the "Father of History" in Western culture.

Hesiod (Hesíodos) was a Greek oral poet and is often identified as the first economist. His date is uncertain, but leading scholars favour the eighth century BC for when Hesiod lived.