11K views · 902 reactions | #İzmir is a fascinating city filled with summer experiences, cultural treasures and ancient wonders. Let’s wander through the pages of history inside the Library of Celsus, #Ephesus. To learn more, visit: https://goturkiye.com/blog/ephesus-exploring-an-ancient-city #Museums #GoTürkiye #Goİzmir | Go Türkiye | Facebook

Video by @arkeolojievreni | The Library of Celsus, located in Ephesus, western Turkey, was the third-largest library in the Greco-Roman world, behind only those of Alexandria and Pergamum, believed to have held around 12,000 scrolls, with only its impressive facade remaining today, commissioned by Tiberius Julius Aquila Polemaeanus, a consul of the Roman Republic, as a funerary monument for his father Tiberius Julius Celsus Polemaeanus, who is buried in a crypt beneath the library in a decorated