by Peter Marshall | Dec 8, 2017 | Ancient Civilization, Blog, Travel
We hired a car in the spring and climbed up from the coast through mountains and then turned across the flat plain towards Konya in southern Anatolia where the poet and Sufi mystic Rumi once lived and died. About 60 km to the south of Konya, passing through wheat and...
by Peter Marshall | Dec 3, 2017 | Ancient Civilization, Blog
We flew – myself and my companion Liz – from Ankara, the capital of Turkey, to Sanliurfa in the south east of the country close to the Syrian border. It is a large town, meaning ‘Glorious Urfa’ because it resisted the French soon after the First World War but...
