Mediterranean Turkey squashed as it is between the high Taurus mountains and the sea, is but a narrow strip of coastline most times cut off from the interior and looking out to the big wide world. The east Mediterranean was a very busy place from early times and that's where some of the ideas came from. Come and have a look for yourself: no previous knowledge required. We shall start from the west with those intriguing Lycians and end up in Antioch now a Turkish town but with quite a variegated past.