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Asclepeion of Kos

Kos Municipality, Greece

The Temple of Asclepius or Asclepieion of Kos was one of the most famous temples dedicated to Asclepius in the ancient world. The archeologist Rudolf Herzog, grandfather of Werner Herzog excavated it in 1902, as the latter recounted in conversation with Paul Holdengräber.

Archaeological site data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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