A team of Turkish archaeologists has unearthed a 1,800-year-old Roman statue in the ancient Greco-Roman city of Metropolis, located next to the town of Yeniköy, between the city of İzmir and the ruins of Ephesus in western Turkey. Occupied since the Neolithic, Metropolis reached its cultural and economic peak after the death of Alexander the Great, in the Hellenistic period; cited by Strabo and Ptolemy, it had a rare temple dedicated to the god Ares and was famous for its wine production. It remained an important city under the Roman Empire, and is also mentioned by Byzantine historians.
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Pablo Gómez is a specialist in Turkey and has been editor-in-chief of Hispanatolia since 2011. He has been analysing current affairs and geopolitics in Turkey and the surrounding region since 2006.
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