Out of all the Roman ruins throughout the Mediterranean, the ancient city of Ephesus in Turkey is one of the most exciting and intact city ever to be discovered. Turkey in ancient times enjoyed a valuable and strategic position within the Mediterranean and with this came many foreign conquests. Throughout Turkey you can see many influences from both the Greeks (Hellenistic period) and the Roman Empire and in particular, the city of Ephesus displays these styles within it’s structures. In fact it’s a general consensus amongst the Turks, that there are more Roman ruins in Turkey than there are in Rome. The sheer scale of Ephesus is still yet to be…