Red Basilica

A 4,500-year-old marble goddess figure has been discovered during the surface surveys conducted in the Bakırçay Plain, located within the borders of the ancient city of Pergamon in the Bergama district of İzmir.

The temple built in the 2nd century AD as a devotion to the Egyptian god Serapis, is said to be the best preserved and largest temple in Anatolia, according to experts

Previously a temple thought to honor ancient Egyptian gods, then converted to a church, the Red Basilica pays homage to the different cultures and societies that have inhabited Anatolia Archaeological excavations have begun focusing on the basement of the Red Basilica, one of the seven churches in Bergama, which is on UNESCO’s World Heritage List, and is one of the tallest surviving structur