OWNERS of historic buildings that have fallen on hard times around the Apollo Temple are to be given the chance to place them into the hands of the Cultural Ministry. The Apollo Temple and its immediate environment is listed as a 1st Degree Archaeological Site in Hisar District by the Culture and Tourism Directorate of…
Read MoreGlenn Maffia MERELY a month now until I visit London’s rain splattered streets once more. Always high upon my itinerary are the amenable hours spent in the museums and art galleries which proliferate this gloriously cultured city. New level on the horizon Though this year shall be infinitely more fulfilling as, due to the Archaeological…
Read MoreGlenn Maffia THE inaugural stroll through the archaeology surrounding the Temple of Apollo last Sunday past was enthusiastically attended and received by the impressive number of 15 interested and inquisitive residents and tourists. Although this was more than double the number I was envisaging as being ‘comfortable’ for the hour long walk, it was to…
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Glenn Maffia AND now August is fully upon us; I was rather expecting to meet old friends and acquaintances from the Halle University in Germany who have been coming here for the past 12 years to perform their annual excavation work around, and in, the Temple of Apollo. Always an exhilarating time of year for…
Read MoreGlenn Maffia CORRESPONDING with one of my German archaeologist friends, he brought to my attention the level of thieving going on in the vicinity of the Temple of Apollo. An activity that has, evidently, been occurring on a regular basis ever since the archaeological site was first excavated back in the early part of the…
Read MoreVoices columnist Glenn Maffia takes a historic walk down memory lane on the Sacred Road THE ancient processional road from the Delphinion in Miletus to the Temple of Apollo at Didyma winds its way for 16.5 kilometres across the rough and hilly terrain along the southern edge of what once was Ionia. The annual sojourn…
Read MoreGlenn Maffia THE rousing success of the archaeological guide to the artifacts surrounding the Temple of Apollo has prompted me to embark upon another project: the Sacred Way. Namely because it is visible, and also because I have been assured that it will be open to the public this summer; though as of now we…
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Glenn Maffia RISING early, I left my house to arrive with plenty of time to spare to be able to count the numbers making up the congregation for the re-use of the old Greek chapel for Christian worship; the first since the Turkish and Greek exchange of populations in 1923. The day was bright, warm…
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Glenn Maffia To put it mildly I was incandescent with irritation that the ‘Apollon Workshop’ was veiled to become, to all intents and purposes, a ‘Closed Shop’. This was something that I needed to be within and hear the proposals (if there were any) espoused. I informed a Turkish archaeologist friend of mine, who was…
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Voices columnist Glenn Maffia on a ‘historic mistake’ I STILL retain a slight niggled doubt, though my archaeologist friends have done the work and concluded that my visual observation of the placement of a possible third temple is awry by some twenty metres or so. Oh so near, yet so far! I kowtow to their…
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