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Nemrut Dagi (Mt. Nimrod)
Atop this mountain are curious stone heads that have toppled off their bodies--legacy to King Antiochus of the Commagene Empire (around 6c. BCE). The heads are of Greek gods, with whom Antiochus apparently saw himself as equal.
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