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3 unusual facts about Arsameia


Arsameia

A processional way leads up the mountain in the form of a Z and passes three sites which its discoverer Friedrich Karl Dörner marked as Sites I–III.

Along with the American Theresa Goell he uncovered between the years 1953–56 the finds that are visible today.

It was then taken in 235 BCE by the Seleukid Antiochus Hierax who was fleeing from his brother Seleucus II, who was later claimed as an ancestor by the Commagenian King Antiochus I.


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