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Scanned slides of varying quality from Nemrut Dagi: Mount Nemrut is a 2,134-metre-high (7,001 ft) mountain in southeastern Turkey, notable for the summit where a number of large statues are erected around what is assumed to be a royal tomb from the 1st century BC. It is one of the highest peaks in the east of the Taurus Mountains. In 62 BC, King Antiochus I built on the mountain top a tomb-sanctuary flanked by huge statues 8–9-metre high of himself, two lions, two eagles and various Greek, Armenian, and Iranian gods. The heads of the statues at some stage have been removed from their bodies, and they are now scattered throughout the site. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Nemrut

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Category:Travel and Places
Subcategory:Middle East
Subcategory Detail:Turkey
Keywords:1990, Dagi, Nemrut, Turkey, slide

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