KARAKUS ROYAL GRAVES & CENDERE BRIDGE – Roman Engineering in Turkey 🇹🇷
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Channel: Travel: The Good, The Bad & The Funny · 2011 · Travel & Events
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The Karakus Royal Graves ("Tumulus") belonged to the Commagene Empire and was constructed by Mithridates II as a memorial to his mother. Four columns surrounded the site with large figures on top of two columns. A third had an inscribed slab on top explaining the burial mound held female relatives, yadda yadda.... A little underwhelming but the Cendere Bridge made up for it.
The most impressive Cendere Bridge was built by the Romans in the 2nd century A.D. in honor of Emperor Septimius Severus, his wife, Julia Domna and sons Caracalla (think Roman Baths of Caracalla) and Geta. (All this information is on a stele.) Cendere Bridge spans the Kahta River in a single arch and was constructed of 92 stones that each weight about 10 tons!
Now, that's what I call a bridge!!
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