"Because history is not" exact science "- it is a humanistic discipline. Its main subject is people, and, as Thucydides said a long time ago, history is not about studying circumstances, but about people in circumstances. Anyone who forgets that because he is in love with his own special area of interest or is fascinated by the model-building activities and ideal types of behaviourists can only be described as simple-minded.”

- Gordon A. Craig, 1981 in Münster / Westphalia

Theodor Wiegand - Excavations and Travel

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Theodor Wiegand - Excavations and Travel

Our visit to the Forest Fire Station of Dursunbey came together with the meeting of some Roman artifacts that justified our interest to further research in the history of Dursunbey or Balat, how the city was called until 100 years ago.

The Fisherman of Halicarnassus - Bodrum

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Fisherman of Halicarnassus

Cevat Şakir Kabaağaçlı, the son of an Ottoman family graduated from Oxford, was convicted of some obscure crime in 1925 and exiled to Bodrum for three years.

Haymatloz - Ernst Reuter in Ankara

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Haymatloz - Ernst Reuter Hause in Berlin

The word "Haymatloz" was written in capital letters in the passports of Jewish refugees who tried to escape to Turkey during World War II. More than 1000 German people immigrated to the Bosporus from 1933 until 1945  and they left traces which can still be seen today. 

Turkish Mythology or the "Ergenekon Legend"

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Turkish Mythology or the

Emerging from the merger of various nomadic tribes around 500 AD, the tribal federation of the "Turks" was initially more of a community of interests that campaigned for the expansion of their pastures and control of the few oasis towns in Central Asia.

Mythologies from Kelainai during the reign of King Midas

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Mythologies from Kelainai during the reign of King Midas

In our article on the dynasty of the ancient Persian Achaemenids, we reported on the development of the ancient city of Kelainai, which was later called Apameia Kibotos and was located at the sources of the Meander river.

Termessos and Bellerophon - Mythology

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Termessos and Bellerophon - Mythology

What armies could not do was possible for the great hero Bellerophon, who, like Heracles, was one of the great heroes of Greek mythology.

Easter and the Easter bunny - mythology about painted eggs

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Easter and the Easter bunny - mythology about painted eggs

Pastor Jean Richier called the Easter bunny hiding the eggs "a fable to be opened to the simple-minded and to children" (fabula, que simplicioribus et infantibus imponunt) and he consequently had to leave his native France in the 17th century for reasons of religious persecution.

Symbolism for eternal life - the tail-eater Ouroboros

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Symbolism for eternal life - the tail-eater Ouroboros

Our tour of the central cemetery in Vienna brought not only our amazement due to the huge dimensions of the cemetery, the sometimes bizarre types of use and the social integration into the local people community, but also numerous insights into the symbolism on the tombstones and monuments.

Poseidon or Neptunus - God of the Sea

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Poseidon - God of the Sea

Poseidon (Latin: Neptunus) was the god of the sea and, as "Earth-Shaker," of earthquakes in Greek mythology. The name of the sea-god Nethuns in Etruscan was adopted in Latin for Neptune in Roman mythology: both were sea gods analogous to Poseidon.

Historical facts and mythology of our sun

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Historical facts and mythology of our sun

The sun is the central star in our heaven, all life on the earth depends on it. This great importance has been conscious to the people since ages. Thus many earlier cultures revered the sun as a god.

Delphi - Mythology about the Oracle of Delphi

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Delphi - Mythology about the oracle of Delphi

In ancient times, Delphi was considered to be the center of the world of that time. According to the myth, the divine Zeus had let two eagles rise from one end of the world, which lateron they met in Delphi.

Apollo - God of Light and Sun from Olymp

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Apollo - God of Light

In Greek and Roman mythology, Apollo is one of the most important and diverse of the Olympian deities. Apollo has been variously recognized as a god of light and the sun; truth and prophecy; archery; medicine, healing and plague; music, poetry, and the arts; and more.

Demeter - Goddess of Fertility of the Earth

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Demeter - Goddess of the Harvest

In Greek mythology Demeter  was the goddess of the harvest, who presided over grains, the fertility of the earth, the seasons and the harvest. Though Demeter is often described simply as the goddess of the harvest, she presided also over the sanctity of marriage, the sacred law, and the cycle of life and death.

Dionysus - God of Wine and Fun

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Dionysus - God of Wine and Fun

Dionysus or Dionysos is the ancient Greek god of wine, the god who inspires ritual madness and ecstasy, and a major figure of Greek mythology. He is included as one of the twelve Olympian Gods in some lists. Dionysus is typical of the god of the epiphany, "the god that comes".

Heracles - Salvation- and Oracle God

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Heracles - Salvation- and Oracle God

Heracles was a divine hero in Greek mythology, the son of Zeus and Alcmene, foster son of Amphitryon  and great-grandson (and half-brother) of Perseus. He was the greatest of the Greek heroes,a paragon of masculinity, the ancestor of royal clans who claimed to be Heracleidae.

Zeus - the King of Gods from Mount Olymp

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Zeus - the King of Gods

Zeus is the King of the Gods in Greek Mythology.  Zeus was viewed as a king who oversaw the universe. In Hesiod's Theology, he assigns the various gods their roles. In the Homeric Hymns he is referred to as the chieftain of the gods. He is also called the "Father of Gods and men", according to Hesiod's Theology.

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