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Selinus, the City Where Emperor Traian's Last Road Stopped

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Almost 1,900 years after Traian's death, archaeologists return to Selinus, the port of southern Anatolia where the Roman emperor spent his last days.
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Emperor Traian, the conqueror of Dacia, died in a small port in Cilicia, Turkey today, in 117 AD, at the age of 63. Archaeologists discovered in the settlement a monument as a temple dedicated to the Roman Emperor, although his ashes were taken to Rome.

Almost 1,900 years after Traian's death, archaeologists return to Selinus, the port of southern Anatolia where the Roman emperor spent his last days.

A team of archaeologists from Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University began a survey in the ancient Selinus, located in present-day Turkey, where Emperor Trajano died in 117 A.D. The work, carried out between 7 and...

In August of the year 117, a ship with the emperor of Rome on board had to approach the coast of Cilicia because the passenger was too sick to follow. It was called Trajan, for nineteen years ruling the greatest empire of its time and had been born in Italica, next to the current Seville. [...]

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La Brújula Verde broke the news in Oviedo, Spain on Sunday, October 4, 2026.
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