Valley of Marble and Healing
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Transforming Babadağ marble into world-renowned art, the sculptors of Aphrodisias, together with the healing spa city of Hierapolis and the wealthy textile hub of Laodicea, established antiquity's most sophisticated specialization triangle in the Denizli basin.
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Long-form story · Culture and memory · A link to today · deniz-doga
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Periods
- Hellenistic era
- Roman era
- Eastern Roman era