Excavations at Tlos reveal Roman works

[hugh shaw]

Well maybe the government get the entrance fees but most of the locals are living of tourism in some way either selling food and drink or souvenirs or supplying produce those who do

[lissa]

Well if they would build something to house these statues in at Tlos, that would be great, but cannot see that being done, to be honest. Statues are not always left on site, those taken from Ephesus are in the museum in Selcuk, for example. Would be better in Fethiye than further away.

[hugh shaw]

Further away from who?.

[Scunner]

quote:Originally posted by hugh shaw

Why should these sculptures be shipped anywhere there are people who have lived all there lives in Tilos scraching a living from tourism and farming and they need the atraction if anyone wants to see them its easy to get there now just jump on a dolmus.

I have no idea where "Tilos" is, but how would keeping statues there benefit a local farmer?

[hugh shaw]

OK so you found a spelling mistake Mr Skunner maybe you should have named yourself Nitpicker instead of Scunner.I noticed a recent post about beer prices where you contributed 15 replies out of 35 effectivly keeping it going twice as long as necessary.

[Scunner]

It's a discussion forum, people can contribute as many replies as they choose to, that's the idea. If you don't like it here you don't need to come! I notice you didn't even have an answer to my question so chose to avoid it.

[Jacqui Harvey]

Statues have been moved to the Museum in Fethiye, so, at least not too far away.

[lissa]

Further away than from where they were found, such as Ankara or any other place where people who visit this area would be highly unlikely to see them.
Great news though Jacqui that they are in the Fethiye museum and as I said before this museum is well worth a visit. Small but has lots of items, both small within the building and larger pieces in the garden. So close to Fethiye market too so easy to get to. I went towards the end of winter and think it cost 3 lira entrance, possibily slightly more now as museum prices are reviewed yearly, but would doubt it is more than 5 lira.Maybe no increase.