It was stifling at the Temple when I visited last Thursday, and necessitated copious amounts of water replenishment to be carried, wrtes Glenn Maffia. Though, as this was the first opportunity to visit since the ‘craft festival’ finished, I wasn’t going to miss the chance. I was surprised to see a number of stalls still…
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Having so much time on my hands within this imposed UK lockdown has afforded me to surf around and research avenues that I’d normally pass over writes Glenn Maffia. An interesting one is the German Archaeological Institute’s agenda and timetable of activities across the globe. Naturally I looked for any proposed new work concerning the…
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It was saddening to read that the building which houses the small finds from the entire archaeological site had partially collapsed after being weakened by recent torrential rainfall, though such news was not surprising, writes Glenn Maffia. It was during the summer of 2012 when I was conversing with the archaeologists, once more, when I…
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Seemingly marooned indefinitely within the sleeping lockdown city which these days is London, I have managed to continue to keep in touch with events going on and around the Temple of Apollo thanks to Voices and my friends within Didim, writes Glenn Maffia. Therefore, I shall recount some of the issues which have revealed themselves…
Read More A WATER leak which has bedevilled the ruins of the Apollo Temple for two years has finally been found – and fixed. Voices Newspaper’s writer Glenn Maffia was the first to report on the issue back in the summer of 2018, with concerns about the source of the leak which was centred around the bottom…
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As you would imagine, I was early to the Apollo Temple the day after last Friday’s lethal earthquake to inspect any damage that may have occurred to this unique structure of antiquity, writes Glenn Maffia. Obviously, my first reference was to confirm the iconic columns continued to be in situ, and not condemned to be…
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It has all been rather quiet on the Didyma archaeological front this year. The Covid virus has prevented the German Archaeological Institute from arriving this year, writes Glenn Maffia. There was initial hope their usual August arrival would be possible, but then I received word that September was pencilled in, though in their continued absence…
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Held in the sway of today’s pandemic, I recalled how an ancient pandemic inflicted anguish and woe upon Didyma, writes Glenn Maffia. Not in as direct a way as physical suffering, but significant consequences in the economic and political sphere. The context was what we refer to as the Peloponnesian War, primarily fought between the…
Read More What a feeling of freedom invades the senses now that we have the option of self determination as to our movements and actions once again. Naturally, there are guidelines to be adhered to if we are to be further free of this virulent virus, therefore, with freedoms come responsibilities. ‘Caution’ and ‘social distancing’ must be…
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It was at this time last year that I had first heard, from a Turkish friend who works alongside the archaeologists, the whisper that the ‘small finds’ house, next to the Temple of Apollo precinct, was to have it’s contents moved to the Miletus Museum or the Excavation House in Didyma, Glenn Maffia writes. Upon…
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