Mount Nimrod (Nemrut)
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 Adýyaman and Kahta (map), was rediscovered by a geologist in 1881. On it are two hierothesiums, open-air shrines to the gods, with huge limestone statues of Apollo, Fortuna, Zeus, Heracles, and