City of Perga on Turkey’s southwestern Mediterranean coast was renowned in ancient world for production of marble statues
Archaeologists from Turkey’s Future Heritage Project have unearthed five Roman statues in the ancient city of Perga, located on Turkey’s southwestern Mediterranean coast. The statues, dating to the second century AD, include a striking 2-meter-high statue of the goddess Aphrodite, a broken statue of a woman, and sculptures of a clothed man and woman. These discoveries shed light on Perga’s sculpture tradition and artistic production, as well as its social structure. Perga, once a key center for sculpture-making in the ancient world, is now yielding well-preserved marble statues and Greek mosaics. The statues are set to be displayed at Turkey’s Antalya Museum.
