Situated in Ephesus, this prehistoric Roman building now falls in the country’s Selçuk province. Records reveal that the Library of Celsus was constructed between 114-117 A.D. as a tribute to Tiberius Julius Celsus Polemaeanus - the Roman Senator. The library is perceived as one of the most prolific architectural creations of the Roman Empire. Not just a gargantuan capacity to store scrolls, the structure also happens to be the mausoleum for Celsus whose mortal remains are buried beneath the library in an exquisite marble tomb. In the ancient world, the library used to be third-largest after Pergamum and Alexandria. Historians claim that after the Gothic invasion, the library was put on fire and its ruins remained there for centuries until archeologists re-constructed it in the 1970’s.
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