Library of Celsus

Library of Celsus - Credit: Wikimedia Commons

The Library of Celsus () is an ancient Roman building in Ephesus, Anatolia, today located nearby the modern town of Selçuk, in the İzmir Province of western Turkey. The building was commissioned in the years 110s CE by a consul of the Roman Empire, Tiberius Julius Aquila Polemaeanus, as a funerary monument for his father Tiberius Julius Celsus Polemaeanus, former proconsul of Asia, and completed during the reign of the Roman Emperor Hadrian, sometime after Aquila's death. Read more on Wikipedia

type: ancient site
date from: Greek, Roman

Source: en.wikipedia.org