Time travel in ancient Antioch, Turkey

Published March 25, 2012 |

Antioch’s Hatay airport is closed, biblically flooded. Instead we fly in to macho, meat-loving Adana, Turkey’s very own Texas, over vast brown and green fields of cotton and tobacco. This detour affords us an overnight stay in Tarsus, birthplace of Saint Paul, and the site of Anthony and Cleopatra’s first frolickings. Tarsus has been bypassed by a motorway more lately, so what was an important, thriving city 2,000 years ago is now a charming provincial backwater.

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Story by Kevin Gould – The Guardian; Photo by James Dale – Wikicommons

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