Expert Level Guiding Information for Ephesus Tours - Episode 4/5

Article 4 will be about the areas he worked on excavations at Ephesus Ancient City his memories and  some unknown areas yet to be discovered.

This blog post is consisted of more personal stories so it will be interesting for not only tour guides for Ephesus but also for the general audience who is interested in discovery stories.
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What are the effects of technology to Archaeology?
The structure he thought  was the Synagogue of Ephesus?
Stoa of Alitarc at the entrance of Ephesus Terrace Houses?
The Turkish Movie that was filmed here...
His thoughts on delivering the information to tourists

Is there a relation between Narthex plant and some ancient settlements?
The undug area across the Terrace Houses in Ephesus.
The theory of Lyzimakhos’ Villa at Ephesus Ancient City.

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In this video he talks about how the technology and new ground surveying systems effect the new discoveries at Ephesus.
He says the old generation of archaeologists like himself look for an indication above ground such as a fraction of a wall, a column maybe a column capital.

​Then they check if the found a wall how long it goes to different directions only by excavating the area as a conventional practice.
​But now the technology is so advanced, there is geophysics radar, geo-radar, you run that system and see how long the walls would go underneath without needing any excavation.

And he gives some interesting information about the radar scanned parts of Ephesus. 
at the Upper entrance ticket office, there is a path going towards Domitian Temple and the Terrace Houses. There has been a geo-radar ground survey practiced over there, and they found out that there is a majestic avenue underneath, the columns are still standing.
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But I am not for it to be excavated, because the technology is in a progress and developing every day. We do not want to experience the same things that happened in Terrace Houses Unit 1.
​First you need to find the funds to preserve and restore then you should start excavating.

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And on the marble street that runs along the theater, he share a story of his.
In the 80s they were excavation in here and at the end of the road he discovers a beautiful mono block marble fountain basin, just like the one in Sardis Ancient city right at Sardis Synagogue.

 It reminds him straight the Synagogue of Sardis and he reckons they found the Synagogue in Ephesus as well.
​It turns out it's just a extraordinarily beautiful road junction where they placed this fountain.

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​Here we are in front of the entrance of Terrace Houses.
​And the Mosaic Floor that you see here is called Alitarces Stoa, and it was restored in 1970-72 by Cengiz İcten with Recep Kadis.
In Terrace Houses Unit 1, the ground floors are shops and stores and inside these shops there are stairs going up to second floors and residential units.

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In this video he talks about an old Turkish Movie that was filmed at Ephesus titled DORUK.
In the movie that Cengiz Icten had a role, the 2 famous actors were looking for a treasure at Ephesus. And he talks about how they used these tunnels underneath the Marble Street.

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In this video he talks about how to put Ephesus in a way that travelers and tourists may easily comprehend Ephesus better while they have private Ephesus Tours with a guide and can relate to the history of Ephesus a lot easier.
He suggests that not go so scientific, keep it semi-scientific. ​

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In this video he talks about the unexcavated zones across the Terrace Houses.
The land between the city walls at the top and the Hadrian Temple is unexcavated.
If the area was to be excavated there would be more houses and other structures.
There is a large street on that area that runs behind the Skolastika Baths from the Curetes Street all the way behind the Theater.

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While sitting at the entrance of Terrace Houses and facing to the Hill
and he indicated in the middle section on the hill some remains of a wall.
​If you look careful to that structure you can notice a different between two lines of walls.

According to latest researches by Hilketur, they suggest a theory that this could be the Villa of Lyzimakhos the founder of Ephesus a general of Alexander the Great similar to the Attolos' Houses in Pergamon (Bergama) Acropolis.

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