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The writer claims in the passage that Aphrodisias, with its wonderful ruins, ----.
Until the early 1960s, the picturesque ruins of
Aphrodisias were scattered in and around the very
pretty village of Geyre, where the houses had been
built largely from remnants of the ancient city. But the
present excavations, which began in 1961, have now
reached such a scale that the village and its
inhabitants have been moved to another site nearby.
Some of the superb sculptures unearthed are now
exhibited in a new museum, which is located in what
was once Geyre's village square, while others can be
seen around the archaeological zone, one of the
most interesting and beautiful sites in all of Turkey.
Surprisingly, the excavations at Aphrodisias have
unearthed remains of a settlement dating back to
about 5,800 B.C. The site seems to have been a very
ancient shrine of Ishtar, the fertility goddess of
Nineveh and Babylon, who was one of the
predecessors of Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of
love. In fact, the earliest Greek sanctuary of
Aphrodite on this site dates from the sixth century
B.C., and it was from this sanctuary during the next
four centuries that the cult of Aphrodite spread
throughout the Graeco-Roman world.