classicalmonuments:Necropolis of HierapolisHierapolis, Phrygia, TurkeyThe necropolis is one of the b
classicalmonuments:Necropolis of HierapolisHierapolis, Phrygia, TurkeyThe necropolis is one of the best preserved and extensive of its kind in the world. This city of the dead contains tumuli, sarcophagi and house shaped tombs lying stretched along both sides of the road extending 2km to the north. Most of about the 1200 tombs were constructed with local varieties of limestone. The extent of this necropolis attests again to the importance Hierapolis had in the Antiquity. It is worth taking one’s time to wander amongst the tombs, that date from antiquity to early Christian times, and marvel at the ostentation that these residents of Heirapolis afforded to their tombs. It has a fairyland quality. -- source link