Historic figures like Cleopatra take on a rather mythical quality over time. Between her very real reign, torrid love life, and complex ending, her remarkable story has been retold countless times.

Tellingly, once my husband and I arrive at Hierapolis we can’t find any reference to the celebrated queen in official information at the site. Moreover, our guide for the day, Eren, is blunt in his ...

TURKEY’s stunning Pamukkale is often described as a fairytale landscape by visitors, with its name literally translating to “cotton castle” in the local language. The town is jam packed with both ...

“ARE these real Roman columns, Daddy,” my eight-year-old daughter, Ella, asks as we climb over a submerged Doric column in the crystal-clear mineral waters below us and wade into deeper waters. “I don ...

Brian Grubb is known for taking wakeskating to weird places – check out his latest stop in Turkey. But the Cleopatra Pool would need some work. "It was a very shallow pool with pillars and rocks just ...

"I look at spots with water around them differently from most people,” says Grubb. “I'm always looking for new places to ride and a lot of times those are fountains and spillway drops. As wakeskaters ...