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The Commercial Agora was the heart of trade not only within the ancient city of Ephesus, but also for all of Asia Minor during the city’s Roman-era. Also known as the Tetragonos Agora, this marketplace once stood at the center of

The Gate of Mazeus with three passage ways at the right of the Celsus Library was built in 40 A.D by the slaves Mazeus and Mythridates for their emperor, Augustus, who gave them their

The Prytaneum hosted this shrine, where the city's eternal flame was tended by vestal virgins, and was fronted by a giant statue of Artemis, now in the Ephesus Museum in Selçuk. The fertility goddess was portrayed with huge breasts and

It is believed that the evangelist St. John had spent his last years in the region around Ephesus and buried in the southern slope of Ayasoluk Hill. Three hundred years after the death of St. John, a small chapel was constructed over the

The Hercules Gate is a highlight of Ephesus, both in the ancient city and today. Today, the two remaining columns of feature reliefs of the Greek hero Hercules, draped in the skin of the Nemean lion, which he strangled in the first of his

The Magnesia Gate is a triumphal arch gate from the 3rd century BC that served as the eastern entrance to the ancient city of Ephesus. The triple-arched gate, flanked by two large towers, was named so because it faces the city of Magnesia