TURKEY. Izmir. Ephesus. 2017.

Tourists walk near the Theatre.

Museum employees didn't want to speak about the tourism issue but the security guard said that normally they had around 2 million visitors annually. "But since 2015 we lost at least 60% of them, now we have only Asian and Turkish tourists."

Ephesus is a large archaeological site in Aegean Turkey and one of Turkey's major tourist attractions, an exceptional testimony to the cultural traditions of the Hellenistic, Roman Imperial, and early Christian periods as reflected in the monuments found in the site.