From Mandy and Ali
Our day at the Archeology Museum...
This afternoon, Alyssa and I followed a tip about visiting the archeological museum. I LOVE history and we agreed that it would be extremely interesting to see. We were definitely not disappointed - the museum was fantastic and it definitely exceeded our expectations! A little tip when going to museums in foreign countries: Just because there is not a sign saying, "Do not touch the artifacts." does not mean that you can touch the artifacts... You would think that with both of us being Seniors in college we would have some sort of common sense regarding these things, but, meh...we found out soon enough. Apart from that, we had a great time. We got through almost half of the museum in the two hours that we had left before it closed. It costs only five lira as opposed to all the other museums that cost twenty lira to get in; so, we are definitely going back to finish the rest. Well, I hope you enjoy the pictures...
from Mandy
Yes, Mandy and I had a fun time combing through the museum. Now, if you know me, you know that I'm not really that much of a museum type girl. But I love history and Turkey has some of the best, so I thought it had promise. It was pretty interesting. In the main building of the museum, we walked into this room that was labeled "Cult of Graves" or something like that. It had so many really old tombstones that had engravings and inscriptions. Some of the ones back in the early hundreds were in Greek, so I had a good time reading them. I didn't know what it meant, of course (except I did find "adelphos" and matched it up with the translation "brother"...that was way cool). We also read the story of Psyche and Eros. It was actually pretty sweet for Greek mythology! Made me want to read Metamorphises. We also found a mini Trojan horse which made me want to read Homer. I also enjoyed walking through the labyrinth of old stuff, reading about the history of Uskudar, Sirkeci, and several other places in Istanbul. There were intermediate pictures on the walls with the information about the excavations next to them. That was pretty fascinating.
~Alyssa
This afternoon, Alyssa and I followed a tip about visiting the archeological museum. I LOVE history and we agreed that it would be extremely interesting to see. We were definitely not disappointed - the museum was fantastic and it definitely exceeded our expectations! A little tip when going to museums in foreign countries: Just because there is not a sign saying, "Do not touch the artifacts." does not mean that you can touch the artifacts... You would think that with both of us being Seniors in college we would have some sort of common sense regarding these things, but, meh...we found out soon enough. Apart from that, we had a great time. We got through almost half of the museum in the two hours that we had left before it closed. It costs only five lira as opposed to all the other museums that cost twenty lira to get in; so, we are definitely going back to finish the rest. Well, I hope you enjoy the pictures...
from Mandy
Yes, Mandy and I had a fun time combing through the museum. Now, if you know me, you know that I'm not really that much of a museum type girl. But I love history and Turkey has some of the best, so I thought it had promise. It was pretty interesting. In the main building of the museum, we walked into this room that was labeled "Cult of Graves" or something like that. It had so many really old tombstones that had engravings and inscriptions. Some of the ones back in the early hundreds were in Greek, so I had a good time reading them. I didn't know what it meant, of course (except I did find "adelphos" and matched it up with the translation "brother"...that was way cool). We also read the story of Psyche and Eros. It was actually pretty sweet for Greek mythology! Made me want to read Metamorphises. We also found a mini Trojan horse which made me want to read Homer. I also enjoyed walking through the labyrinth of old stuff, reading about the history of Uskudar, Sirkeci, and several other places in Istanbul. There were intermediate pictures on the walls with the information about the excavations next to them. That was pretty fascinating.
~Alyssa
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