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  1. On the road between Çavuşin and Zelve🇹🇷, we stop at Paşabağ, also called "Monks Valley". Here the landscape displays the amazing multi-headed mushroom rock formations, some 15-20m high into which monks carved cells in the #Byzantine period to live a solitary life.

    #Travel #VirtualTravel #Cappadocia

  2. We've made a big loop and now it's time to head east, stopping at the village of Çavuşin and the church of St John the Baptist, a rock cut church dating to the early 6th century (hear that, my #LateAntiquity & #Byzantine peeps??). It may be the oldest church in #Cappadocia 🇹🇷

    #Travel #VirtualTravel

  3. Researchers Used A 1,500-Year-Old Map To Find A Lost City - Excavators Determined Tharais Was A Religious Hub Of The Byzantine Empire
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    popularmechanics.com/science/a <-- shared technical article
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    dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/a <-- shared paper
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    “ • Researchers recently found one of the many lost Holy Land cities in Jordan.
    • The team used maps and field surveys to identify the site.
    • Experts believe the lost city Tharais wasn’t just an agricultural village—it may have also been a spiritual hub…”
    #map #mapping #ancientmap #ancienthistory #Tharais #HolyLand #Jordan #surveys #MadabaMosaicMap #geography #AncientRome #RomanEmpire #city #archaeology #Byzantine #urban #settlement #Karak #excavation #MiddleEast #desert