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Nemrut Daği National Park Sights

Karakuş Tümülüs

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Lonely Planet review for Karakuş Tümülüs

Highway D360, marked for Nemrut Dağı Milli Parkı , starts in Kahta next to the Hotel Kommagene. After a few kilometres, you'll reach a fork; the road to the left takes you 1.5km to Karakuş Tümülüs. Like the Nemrut mound, the Karakuş burial mound, built in 36 BC, is artificial. A handful of columns ring the mound – there were more but the limestone blocks were used by the Romans to build the Cendere Bridge. An eagle tops a column at the car park, a lion tops another around the mound, and a third has an inscribed slab explaining that the burial mound holds female relatives of King Mithridates II.

 

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