Southern Aegean: Fig, honey, olive
Figs, olives, honey, herbs, sea and pot cooking read Southern Aegean food together with the flow of production between coast and inland valley.
32 narratives and 50 place records connect to this discovery world through thematic and geographic relationships.
Four gateways into this world
- Produce and geography — The natural settings of olives, grapes, figs, grain, herbs, fish and dairy.
- Production and labour — Knowledge accumulated in vineyard, mill, bakery, dairy, market and home kitchen.
- Season and harvest — When, where and through which rhythm a product reaches the table.
- Migration and table memory — Traces left by moving communities in recipes, techniques and table habits.
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Story and event network
- The long work of stone at Aphrodisias: from quarry to apprentice, Aphrodite to Geyre
- Artemis Kindyas Sanctuary Festivals and Pegasus Legend at Bargylia (100 CE)
- From Bargylia Artemis Temple to Tuzla Flamingos and Akyaka River: Pegasus Myth, Pink Bird Flocks, and Crystal Azmak Waters
- The road of a question: from Miletus to Didyma, from harbour to delta
- Burgaz (Old Knidos) Archaic Agricultural Terraces and Amphora Production (550 BCE)
- From Burgaz to Palamutbükü and Reşadiye Mansion: Old Knidos, Amphora Kilns, and Datça Stone Architecture
- Progradation of the Büyük Menderes Delta and Silting of the Latmic Gulf (6th c. BCE — 6th c. CE)
- From Cadianda Mountain City to Dalyan Radar Hill and Yaka Art Academy: 5th-Century BC Lycian Acropolis, 450m Delta Panorama, and Olive Press Conversion
- Construction of Cadianda Lycian Mountain City Walls and Acropolis (400 BC)
- From Domatia Greek Stone Houses to Karina Pier and Thebae Walls: Mount Mykale Mansions, Lagoon Fisheries, and Hellenistik Fortresses
- Population Exchange of Eski Doğanbey (Domatia) and Trade at Karina Customs Pier (1923 CE)
- From Gerga Sanctuary to Köyceğiz Lake and Saklıkent Canyon: Megalithic Karian Temple, Kaunos Saltworks, and 300m Gorge Walls
- Hermias, the dolphin, and the two memories of Güllük Gulf
- From Iasos Fish Market Museum to Keramos Kurşunlu Yapı and Mobolla Chimneyed Mansions: Maritime Walls, Massive Ashlar Masonry, and Muğla Chimneys
- Construction of Iasos Maritime Walls and Roman Fish Market Monument (350 BCE)
- Where Two Seas Meet: The Lighthouse of Knidos, Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, and Rock Tombs of Kaunos
- From İzmir Epicurus' Teos Garden to Nysa Aristodemus Library and Miletus Hecataeus Map: Epicureanism, Roman Rhetoric, and World's First Map
- From İzmir Colophon Mimnermus Poetry to Teos Nausiphanes Philosophy and Knidos Chrysippus Medicine: Lyrical Poetry, Atomist Philosophy, and Experimental Dietetics
- Emergence of Native Karian Religious Cult and Construction of Gerga Megalithic Monuments (500 BCE)
- Sacred Ways and Key-Bearers of Caria: Mountain Rituals from Lagina to Labraunda
- From Kayaköy Levissi to Gemiler Island and Afkule Cliffs: 500 Stone Houses, St. Nicholas Pilgrimage Tunnel, and Cliff Monastery
- Kleidophoros Key-Bearing Ceremony and Hekatesia Festivals
- Construction of Knidos Double Harbors, Eudoxus Observatory, and Scientific Revolution (4th c. BCE)
- From the Latmos Mountains to the Walls of Alinda: Herakleia Rock Art, the Temple of Zeus at Euromos, and Queen Ada
- Meanders of the Maeander: Landlocked Cities from the Latmic Gulf to Lake Bafa
- Construction of Datça Hızırşah Mosque by Menteşe Ruler Hızır Bey (1390)
- From Muğla Bodrum Scylax Explorations to Balıkesir Xenocles Oratory and Aydın Nysa Strabo Geography: Maritime Exploration, Roman Oratory, and World Geography
- Freedom Battle of the Aegean on Mount Mycale: The Fall of the Persian Fleet and the Revival of Panionion
- From the Canyon Library of Nysa to Mastaura Amphitheater and Arpaz Castle
- Invention of the 9-Tower Optical Beacon Telegraph System across Anatolia by Leo the Mathematician of Synnada (840 AD)
- Education of Epicurus by Nausiphanes of Teos and Establishment of Tean Atomist Philosophy (320 BC)
- From Tripolis Colonnaded Street to Buldan Weaving Houses and Peat Lake: Marble Avenues, Hand Looms, and Water Lily Plateaus
Connected cultural inventory
- Akyaka Ancient İdima and Kadın Azmağı Crystal River
- Ancient City of Alinda and Karpuzlu
- Aphrodisias marble-workshop landscape and Geyre
- Arpaz Castle, Beyler Mansion, and Ancient Harpasa
- Ancient City of Bargylia and Artemis Kindyas Temple
- Buldan Süleymanlı High-Altitude Peat Lake and Water Lily Sanctuary
- Datça Burgaz (Old Knidos) Archaic City
- Datça Hızırşah Village and 14th-Century Menteşe Principality Mosque
- Datça Yaka Village and International Knidos Academy of Culture and Arts UKKSA
- Eski Doğanbey (Domatia) Village and Greek Stone Houses
- Ancient City of Euromos and Temple of Zeus Lepsynos
- Fethiye Afkule Cliffside Rock-Cut Monastery
- Fethiye Gemiler Island (St. Nicholas / Gemile) Byzantine Pilgrimage Basilicas
- Fethiye Kayaköy (Levissi) Ghost Village Greek Stone Houses
- Fethiye Yeşilüzümlü Cadianda Ancient City and Traditional Dastar Weaving
- Halicarnassus Ancient City Mausoleum West Gallery of Sculptor Leochares
- Ancient City of Halicarnassus and Bodrum
- Herakleia ad Latmum and Latmos Prehistoric Rock Paintings
- Ancient City of Iasos and Fish Market Museum
- Karina Historic Stone Pier and Menderes Delta Fisheries Lagoon
- Caryanda Ancient City Birthplace of Admiral Scylax and Naval Harbor
- Ancient City of Kaunos and Dalyan Rock Tombs
- Ancient City of Keramos and Kurşunlu Yapı
- Ancient City of Knidos
- Knidos Ancient City Birthplace of Royal Physician Chrysermus and Alexandrian Medical Atelier
- Knidos Ancient City Birthplace of Experimental Physician Chrysippus and Medical School
- Köyceğiz Lake, Kaunos Saltworks and Dalyan Channels
- Sanctuary of Zeus Labraundos at Labraunda
- Sanctuary of Hekate at Lagina
- Ancient City of Mastaura and Round Roman Amphitheater
- Milas Chalcetor (Karakuyu) Ancient City and Karian Fortifications
- Milas Tuzla Lagoon and Greater Flamingo Sanctuary
- Ancient City of Miletus
- Miletus Ancient City and Birthplace of Cartographer Hecataeus of Miletus
- Mobolla (Asar Castle) and Saburhane Stone Mansions
- Ancient City of Myus
- Ancient City of Nysa ad Maeandrum and Canyon Library
- Nysa Ancient City Birthplace of Aristodemus and Two-Story Library
- Nysa Ancient City Geography Academy and Library Study Site of Strabo
- Ortaca Dalyan Radar Hill Summit and İztuzu Caretta Caretta Habitat
- Palamutbükü Bay, Ancient Amphora Kilns, and Datça
- Ancient City of Priene
- Reşadiye Mehmet Ali Bey Mansion and Old Datça
- Seydikemer Saklıkent Canyon 18 km Giant Gorge
- Seydikemer Yaka Park (Yakaköy) Akdağ Spring Waterfalls and Watermills
- Ancient City of Stratonikeia and Eskihisar Village
- Historic Buldan Weaving Houses and Hand Looms Workshops
- Thebae ad Mycalem Fortress and Güllübahçe St. Nicholas Church
- Ancient City of Tripolis ad Maeandrum and Marble Colonnaded Street
- Yatağan Gerga Karian Sanctuary and Stone Monuments