August
30
/ 2013
Over two millennia ago, a 10-metre column was ordered for the construction of a temple in one of the most important oracle centres in antiquity, Klaros, but it was sunk when the cargo ship carrying it went down near the Çeşme peninsula. Now, 2,200 years later, the order will finally be fulfilled as the column has been recovered from the depths of the sea and will be returned to the site of the Apollo Temple in Klaros Oracle Centre. The column, divided up into eight separate drums, was discovered in 1993 in a shipwreck off Kızılburun cape, just 40 miles from the temple for which they were intended. They were removed in 2007 by six archaeologists under the coordination of
