King Antiochus of Commagene was a guy not very modest. And his mausoleum on Nemrut Dağı confirm that.

This is only one column at the base of the mountain:

This is the road to Nemrut Dağı:

Here we are almost at the top:

Other tourists:

On top of one of the highest mountains of Turkey he made carve huge statues of himself, lions, Greek and Persian gods, including Apollo-Mithras. The heads were detached from their bodies, probably during the iconoclasm period.

Today we call him a megalomaniac:

At sunset the site is really breathtaking:

This site is one of the most beautiful and special in Turkey, as you can see.

For lovers of maps: from Diyarbakır to Kahta, across the artificial dam, then I was forced to join a mini-tour.