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World Without Logos: Athena in the Ashes of Empires
Abandoned Pantheons Ashes on the Altar On a slope in the Cilician mountains, the wind whispers in Greek. The words mean nothing…
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Tarhunt, Thunder in a Shattered Sky
Abandoned Pantheons Ashes Over the Altar The wind carries sand through the stone fangs of the temple. Somewhere beyond the broken columns,…
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Ship in the Fog: Trajan’s Final Journey (Selinus. Part 2)
Dust of Ages (Trajan in Selinus) 117 AD. Marcus Ulpius Trajan — not just an emperor, but a soldier, a general, a…
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Selinus: The Cenotaph Above the Abyss (part 1)
Dust of Time Entrance to the Labyrinth You approach the sea, but it does not greet you. It breathes — raggedly, heavily,…
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Elaiussa Sebaste: The Temple That Forgot Its God (part 5)
Dust of Ages Entry into Forgetting You walk not by path, but by intuition. Behind you — the town. Underfoot — dust.…
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Elaiussa Sebaste: The Veins Where Water Still Flows (part 4)
Dust of Ages Entry into the Circuit You’re driving along the D400 highway. Everything looks normal—pavement, signs, the shadows of trees. But…
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The Street That No Longer Lives: Lemons of Eternity and the Honey of the Dead.
Elaiussa Sebaste (part 3). Dust of Ages (of Honey) At first, you don’t understand where you’ve ended up. The asphalt is fine.…
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Apollo: The Last Ray Across the Rift
Abandoned Pantheons Ash Over the Altar You stand among the ruins — a place where once they called to the light. Now…
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Elaiussa Sebaste: The Island Where Time Was Shipped (part 2)
Dust of Time Entering the Island of Memory You cross the highway — and suddenly, it’s like stepping into a bug in…
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Elaiussa Sebaste: The Skeleton of an Empire Beneath Garden Plots (Part 1. Center)
Dust of Ages Entrance to the Labyrinth These aren’t ruins. They’re a hole in memory. You step off the dolmuş on the…
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Dust of Empires: Old Road From Rome to Nowhere
Call of the Void Vanishing Point You stand at the edge of a canyon, where the Roman road, like a scar on…
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The Golden Stern Above Kydnos
Scars of History Point of Ignition Tarsus, 41 BCE. The river Kydnos carries purple sails, and the air trembles with the sound…
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Blood on the Waves: How Pompey Drowned Pirates of Cilicia
Scars of History Flashpoint The sea boiled like a mind drunk on power. In 67 BCE, the Mediterranean became a stage where…
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The Family Relief: Whisper of Kanlidivane
Artifact of Inevitability A Glance Through the Glass You stand at the edge of the Kanlidivane chasm, where the air smells of…
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Silifke Fortress: The Towers That Forgotten by God
Dust of Ages Entrance to the Labyrinth Here, above the gray bowl of the Göksu, rises a concrete NFT of the past…
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