After protracted negotiations, I hired a guide. As I walked into the ruins, following the wide central avenue, which housed Varius Baths as in other ancient cities situated in the main entrance so that visitors could wash before entering. Further on, two of Doric columns mark the entrance to the ruined town hall and city treasury. A side street called as Sacred Street led to the Ephesus hospital, where a snake symbol etched into the stone meant the healing powers in the venom of a snake, a belief held by Greeks and Romans, perhaps one of those few things that these two empires of different epochs shared. The spiral symbol to this day is used in medicine. By our ever-brilliant traveloguer Faheem Jeelani Gundroo.
Posted on: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 07:39:40 +0000
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