The book opens up for readers the world of history, architecture and culture of ancient Greco-Roman cities located in the western part of modern Turkey. Together with the author, you will visit ancient cities that had a very strong influence on the development of European civilization, such as Miletus, Ephesus, Pergamum, Sardis, Priene, Aphrodisias, etc. A detailed, vivid description will allow the reader to feel like a contemporary of historical figures closely associated with this region - Thales, Themistocles, Aristotle, Heraclitus, Alexander the Great, Mark Antony, the Roman emperors Hadrian, Trajan, Marcus Aurelius, the first apostles, walk along the same streets they walked, see places described in the most famous ancient Greek myths and works ancient historians and writers. You will learn how the ancient Greek theater arose and developed, get acquainted with the main architectural styles and see the famous buildings in which they were embodied, get acquainted with the ruins of one of the ancient “wonders of the world” - the Temple of Artemis of Ephesus, the Pergamon Library, the second most important in the ancient world, sanctuaries of oracles that rivaled the famous Delphic oracle and other outstanding monuments of ancient history and architecture. You will discover that Asia Minor, which today makes up most of what is now Turkey, far exceeds Greece in the number of ancient cities and competes with Italy. The clearly expressed specificity of the book is a large number of excursions into the history and culture of antiquity, Greece and Rome, a detailed acquaintance with architectural monuments and personalities associated with Greco-Roman Asia Minor. The book will also be useful to the reader when traveling around Europe - when getting acquainted with the antiquity departments of such major world museums as the British Museum in London, the Louvre in Paris, the Capitoline Museums of Rome, the Pergamon Museum and the Old Museum in Berlin, Ephesus Museum in Vienna.