Mount Nemrut
Mount Nemrut is a 2,134 meters (7000 ft.) high mountain in eastern Turkey, 40km north of Kahta, near Adıyaman. At the top of Mt. Nemrut, King Antiochus I Theos of Commagene built his tomb-sanctuary along with huge statues (8-9 meters high) of himself, two lions and two eagles, and various Greek and Persian gods such as Hercules, Zeus-Oromasdes, Tyche, and Apollo-Mithras in 62 BC. These statues were once seated, with names of each god inscribed on them. An artificial mountain peak of rock 50 meters high is piled between the two ledges of the gods, and some suspect Antiochus' tomb may be underneath it. The colossal heads of the ancient gods now lie scattered at the summit of the mountains making an impressive picture at sunset.
