Mount Nemrut or Nemrud (Turkish: Nemrut Dağı; Kurdish: Çiyayê Nemrûdê; Armenian: Նեմրութ լեռ; Greek: Όρος Νεμρούτ) 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.

Mar 30, 2017 · Mount Nemrut is one of Turkey's most spectacular ancient sites; a mysterious mountaintop mausoleum in Central Anatolia scattered with stone heads and thrones. This remote UNESCO World Heritage Site will reward those who make the long journey to see it with evocative sunsets and sunrises - here's how to do it.

Feb 5, 2018 · Mount Nemrut, the monumental resting place of King Antiochus I Theos from the Kingdom of Commagene, is one of the most fascinating ancient places in Turkey. Although the country abounds in magnificent relics of antiquity, Mount Nemrut certainly deserves the place on the top ten list of the archaeological hits of Asia Minor.

Crowning one of the highest peaks of the Eastern Taurus mountain range in south-east Turkey, Nemrut Dağ is the Hierotheseion (temple-tomb and house of the gods) built by the late Hellenistic King Antiochos I of Commagene (69-34 B.C.) as a monument to himself.

Nemrut: Throne of the Gods. A magnificent historical site located on the eastern Taurus mountain range and the 8th Wonder of the World bearing the most valuable monuments of the Kingdom of Commagene. The Nemrut is a mountain of the Taurus Range, in Adiyaman.

Mount Nemrut is an ancient burial mound at the summit of a peak in the eastern Taurus mountain range. The burial mound is flanked by intricately carved statues of Grecco-Persian Gods and King Antiochus, who himself ordered their construction. It is a …

Nemrut Dağ, mountaintop in the Taurus Mountains near Adıyaman, Turkey, that is the site of the enormous 1st-century-BCE mausoleum of Antiochus I of Commagene. The site, featuring the heads of the huge statues that originally surrounded the tumulus at the peak, was inscribed as the Nemrut Dağ World Heritage site in 1987.

May 6, 2019 · Nemrut Dağı (Mount Nimrod) is one of Turkey’s most astounding sights: an artifical mountaintop framed by two great temples littered with colossal statues. Lost to memory for 2000 years, the mountaintop south of Malatya and north of Adıyaman and Kahta (map), was rediscovered by a geologist in 1881.

Aug 20, 2020 · Set within the Anti-Taurus mountain range in southeastern Turkey, beyond the borders of Adiyaman, is the archaeological wonder of Mount Nemrut.

Nov 14, 2023 · Mount Nemrut is located in the peaks of the Taurus Mountains in the southeastern region of Turkey. Also known as Mount Nimrod or Nemrut Dağ, the mountain sits at the edge of the Adıyaman province and just before the Malatya province.