The partially reconstructed facade of the Celsus Library
of ancient Ephesus, Anatolia, now part of Selcuk,Turkey
(Photo © Fred R. Krug)

(The library was constructed in AD 117 - 120 by the Greek born Roman
 Senator Tiberius Julius Celsus Polemaenus with his own personal wealth,
and completed in his honor by his son, Gaius Julius Aquila in AD 135.
The interior and all the scrolls were destroyed by fire in an earthquake
 in AD 262. In a massive restoration project during the 1960s and 1970s,
 the facade of the main building was faithfully reconstructed from the extant
remains. Celsus is buried in a sarcophagus in a crypt beneath the library.)

Rosemary Krug
at a partially reconstructed colonade at Ephesus in 2007

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