Guide 12 of 29
The Istanbul Archaeological Museums
İstanbul
One garden, three buildings: the painted sarcophagi of the classical world, the cuneiform tablets of Mesopotamia, and İznik tiles inside a fifteenth-century pavilion. Twenty-two stops, about forty minutes.
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Duration28min
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The Weeping Column
Hagia Sophia · northwest corner
That column is darker than the others. Because it doesn't belong here — it was brought from Ephesus. For fifteen hundred years everyone touched the same spot, which is why the brass shines.
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