This was the final home of the Virgin Mary

Ephesus Turkey - Library of Celsus

The house of the Virgin Mary. One of these candles I lit for my father.

These pipes were used for underground plumbing of this ancient city.

Underground plumbing leading away from the city. ingenious

It's hard to see but there are small strands of silk coming off these silk worm cocoons which these folks collect to make silk rugs. A small silk rug cost $7000 USD. I'm not kidding. They are absolutely beautiful but insanely expensive. I wouldn’t doubt if it took them months to make with all the effort involved.

One of the many strays running around Ephesus.

Ephesus Turkey - ornate sarcophagus

Ephesus Turkey - ornate sarcophagus

This woman was making a rug out of wool. amazing detail and a tedious process.

One of the many strays running around Ephesus.

Ephesus, Turkey was an ancient Greek city, and later a major Roman city, on the west coast of Asia Minor, near present-day Selçuk, Izmir Province, Turkey. It was one of the twelve cities of the Ionian League during the Classical Greek era. In the Roman period, it was for many years the second largest city of the Roman Empire; ranking behind Rome, the empire's capital. Ephesus had a population of more than 250,000 in the 1st century BC, which also made it the second largest city in the world.

Shopping Bazaar

The amphitheater in the background was said to be able to hold roughly 25 thousand people.

This was our taxi driver. I told him to pose like a "gangsta" and he was like "What"? Then I said put your hood up and do this with your hands. This was the end result.