22 Lost Cities Underwater, On Land, and in Legend

Few ruins feel as theatrical as Ephesus. Marble streets, the Library of Celsus, and an amphitheater large enough for twenty-five thousand voices still line Turkey’s western coast. Once a thriving Greek city and later Roman, Ephesus connects civilizations the way its old harbor once joined continents. Pilgrims, merchants, and philosophers all walked these same stones.

Standing there now, you hear echoes, and how public life used to sound when ideas were traded like goods (or gods).