Cupid and Psyche: It’s Complicated
Edessa—not, one hastens to warn, to be confused with Odessa—is the ancient name of modern Şanlıurfa,…
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The Treasures of HALEPLİBAHÇE
The museum of Şanlıurfa—Edessa in antiquity—preserves mosaics of the Roman period. They are less celebrated…
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Can’t Take My Eyes Off You… For Six Thousand Years
This is precisely how we looked on returning from a week-long marathon through Gaziantep and…
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Potbelly Hill
We have made it to Göbekli Tepe—which translates literally as “Potbelly Hill”—a site now vigorously…
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Urfa, Undiluted
Gaziantep holds the official title of Türkiye’s culinary capital, but in my own humble opinion…
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Libiamo, libiamo ne’ lieti calici!..
To wish you a happy New Year, I have chosen this mosaic from Zeugma. It…
