Amyntas Rock Tombs

This guide to the Amyntas Rock Tombs above Fethiye harbor in Muğla opens with a single Greek inscription, Amyntas, son of Hermagios, carved above a temple-fronted tomb cut into the cliff — the only fact history recorded about him. It traces the Lycian belief that a soul needed a house, the plainer tombs of the unnamed dead around him, and the historians' guess that he descended from the Persian general Harpagos. Climb the worn stone steps cut into the hillside, in sturdy shoes, to reach him.