Caunos Tombs of the Kings

This guide to the Caunos Tombs of the Kings above Dalyan traces the myth of Byblis and her brother Kaunos, whose flight from her forbidden confession is said to have shaped both this city and the river below. It follows the tombs themselves, rock-cut temple facades with Ionic columns and carved lions chiseled into the cliff around the fourth century BCE, a technique local historians call the Kaunosian style. More than a hundred fifty tombs are scattered across this hillside, though only about twenty carry the full temple front worth pausing to study.