Lycian tombs at Xanthos

The city of Xanthus was always the pre-eminent city of Lycia, the mountainous region on Turkey's south coast. The city was sacked by Brutus, Julius Caear's murderer in 42BC, and some sources suggest Alexander had also attacked the city. The 2,500 year old tombs at the heart of the old town, now a beautiful archaeological site, stand rather unusually cheek by jowl with the Roman theatre – 'the playhouse married to the grave'.

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