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Nemrut Dağı
Giant stone heads on a mountaintop tomb built by a king of Commagene.
The Turkish name
Nemrut Dağı
Recording on its way.
The story
On the summit of Nemrut Dağı in Adıyaman, more than two thousand metres up, King Antiochus I of Commagene built himself a tomb-sanctuary in the first century BCE, flanked by colossal seated statues of gods and of himself.
Earthquakes toppled the heads, which now sit at the statues' feet, gazing over sunrise and sunset terraces. UNESCO inscribed the site in 1987.
At a glance
- Province
- Adıyaman
- Height
- 2,134 m
- Built by
- Antiochus I of Commagene, 1st century BCE
- UNESCO
- World Heritage List, 1987
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