The main entrance and main street of Laodicea. Watch Video Clip Roman stores along the road, and a table with two seats where you could sit and play an old Roman game. Watch Video Clip Here you can see one of the intersections off the main street, which runs downhill. The streets are hollow underneath […]

The whole area around the city of Hierapolis is filled with calcium-rich hot springs. You can see some wall ruins in the background. Watch Video Clip Another look at the pools at the hot springs. The water is not too hot, around 32 degrees. Watch Video Clip Earthquakes caused a lot of devastation around Hierapolis. […]

What remains of the Church of St. John site. Watch Video Clip You can see on this map that we have travelled south from Thyatira, through Sardis to Philadelphia.

Old Sardis was built on the East-West trade route, a part of the Roman road. You can see where shops were built along the road, and understand why Sardis was a wealthy city. Watch Video Clip The courtyard of the grand synagogue in Sardis (Second Century). A great facility built by the Romans, it included […]

The area we are bussing through is quite hilly and towns are surrounded with olive groves and vineyards. Watch Video Clip These clips will give you an idea of the valley and hills typography around Sardis. Some of the hills were man-made as burial mounds for wealthy people to be remembered after death. Valley Watch […]

Remains of the ancient city of Thyatira – it was a very rich city as it was a central part of the indigo trade. Watch Video Clip Thyatira is famous for dye production. Here you can see an ancient column that has been stained with the purple dye made from shells. Watch Video Clip

Alan and a number from our fellowship are on the Footsteps of Paul Trip in Turkey and Italy and will be posting video clips from their trip here on “the Chronicle”. Watch for posts from Alan soon!