Ancient Street 1

Ancient Street 1

View looking northwest at the current excavations at ancient Tarsus—at the Cumhuriyet Alani.  The 23 ft. [7 m.] wide road dates to the second century B.C. while the colonnade (visible on the right, northeast, side of the road) probably dates to the third or fourth centuries A.D.

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Image from the Zondervan Atlas of the Bible, p. 224. To view/use additional images from the Atlas Click Here.