There is as yet no definite knowledge about the exact date of the foundation of Ephesus, but famous historians such as Strabon and Pausanias, agreed in the idea of that Ephesus was founded by Amazons, inhabited by the oldest settlers of Anatolia-Lelegians and Carians, as early as 3000 BC.In the year of 10 BC, Androclos, the son of King of Athens-Kodros, was searching for a location to establish a site.

Androclos (who belonged to Akhas), was running from the Dor invasion in Greece. He was leading one of the migration convoys. It was predicted by an Apollon oracle that a fish and a boar would show the location of the new settlement. Days later, parallel to the oracle’s prediction, while frying, a fish fell down from the pan, irritating a hiding boar behind the bushes. The feared boar escaped immediately. Androclos followed the boar and established the city of Ephesus, where he had killed the boar. When Androclos died in the wars with Carians, a mausoleum was built in the memory of the first king of Ephesus. The mausoleum is considered to be placed around "The Door of Magnesia".

Ephesus was ruled by the Lydian king, Kreisos, in mid 6BC. The city reached the "Golden Age" and became a good model to the Antic World in culture and art. But the inhabitants of Ephesus moved away       Click here to continue >>>