Are You in the Market for an Ancient Turkish City? There’s One For Sale.

Finally, the gift you can buy for the guy who has everything: his very own ancient Turkish city. A Turkish real estate agency has just listed a 5th century Aegean town for sale at the completely affordable price of $9.6 million. The city comes with a pretty gnarly Greek origin myth: it’s named Bargylia after the Greek figure Bargylos, who was killed after being kicked by Pegasus, the ancient winged stallion.

The owners of Bargylia, which is located near the popular Turkish resort town of Bodrum, would potentially be able to enjoy some pretty extravagant amenities: an underground ampitheatre, the “remains” of a Roman bath, and a Byzantine-era necropolis (that’s a cemetery for the rest of you plebes); “potentially” because the archaeological site has yet to be excavated. Still, that hasn’t stopped this real estate agency from marketing the city as a summer home to potential buyers.

“A first degree archaeological site, facing the Bird Heaven Lake near the Boğaziçi Village, with full sea and lake view,” says the real estate ad, according to Turkish news daily Hurriyet.
http://magazine.good.is/articles/ancient-turkish-city-for-sale

And so the rich people continue to buy up everything.