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Apr-7-2013 01:56

This is a variation on a theme of Francesca's "Who am I?" thread. The rules are the same, only in this case it would probably be best if we asked one question at a time :).

I'll start:


Its history goes back more than one thousand years.

Jun-29-2013 00:32

guess for Breit: Istanbul or Constantinople
guess for Luc: Mount Ararat or that misplaced ark thing. (i am NOT going through all those boxes looking for it, you're on your own for that one.) L

Jun-29-2013 02:16

Not Troy - though that probably comes closest, in that it's a tourist site in Turkey that used to be a city and isn't any more.

Not Istanbul/Constantinople. Don't think Mount Ararat counts as a city ruin, though I've not been there so I don't know what there is to look at.

No, I'm not going through all those boxes either. :)

Hint: the building that was particularly famous was on a list...

Jun-29-2013 02:55

Is it Göreme?

Jun-29-2013 07:13

No, not Göreme. (Though that's a wonderful place!)

It's definitely somewhere that's no longer inhabited - tourists visit the site of where it was. There's a modern town on a different site nearby, but no longer anywhere with this name.

Jun-29-2013 12:15

My husband visited it years (or rather decades) ago and he still talks about it :).

Could it be Pergamon?

Jun-30-2013 01:34

Not Pergamon, though it's very much that sort of place. Pergamon's further north.

It also features in the New Testament.

Jul-1-2013 11:27

Did Jesus go there?

Jul-2-2013 03:34

Not as far as I know! I don't think he ever went outside Palestine.

Try the famous ancient building thing - there's a well-known list of buildings and monuments from around then?

Jul-2-2013 04:07

Now she's giving us keywords to type in :D

Jul-2-2013 04:10

Well, I did get it, but I doubt if googling is allowed; as is, I don't really want to be the clue-giver, I will be epicly(?) bad at it, so go Cordy! :)