AP PHOTOS: Visitors snap photos of massive stone heads that stare down on them from the summit of Turkey's Mount Nemrut, their faces illuminated by sunset lighting.
ADIYAMAN, Turkey — Visitors snap photos of massive stone heads that stare down on them from the summit of Mount Nemrut, in Turkey’s southeastern Adiyaman province, their faces illuminated by sunset lighting.
Son of the founder of the Commagene kingdom, Antiochus reigned between 64 and 38 BC, until he was deposed by the Romans. The kingdom spanned an area from the eastern edge of the Taurus mountains to the Euphrates River.
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