MYSTERY: Location, location, location

Photo by Michael Kaynard.

If you’ve been to this area attraction, you would have seen alligators and turtles coexisting (seemingly peacefully). Where is it? Send your guess to editor@charlestoncurrents.com and make sure to include your name and hometown.

“What a beautiful and marvelous restoration,” writes Ron Byrd of Charleston about last week’s overseas mystery photograph. He and several others correctly guessed it to be from Ephesus, the ancient Greek city near the coast of Ionia in present-day Turkey. The city, an archaeological playground, contains the largest collection of Roman ruins in the eastern Mediterranean. An important early center for Christianity, Ephesus is thought to be the location from which St. Paul wrote his first epistle to Corinthians. He later wrote to Ephesians while imprisoned in Rome in what became a New Testament epistle.

Georgia Meagher of Charleston wrote, “It is Efes/Ephesus on a crowded day (maybe with cruise ships having just unloaded– also a problem there!), looking towards the Library.  Despite cruise glut on that section of the Turkish “Turquoise Coast,” it is an amazing site anyone would enjoy.”

Judy Carberry of Charleston added that the theater at the site, one of the early centers of civilization, features “acoustics that do not require a microphone to hear from the stage to the top of the seating is still in use.”

Chris Brooks of Mount Pleasant won points with his joking guess of “Nineveh. Destroyed by ISIS.”