Kaunos Ancient City

This guide to Kaunos Ancient City retells the Roman myth of Byblis, whose forbidden letter to her twin brother sent him fleeing across the sea to found this city on the Carian coast, and the tears locals say became the Dalyan River flowing below. It turns to the real place the myth grew up around: temple-fronted tombs cut into the cliff for the city's Hellenistic dead, and a harbor, once the source of its wealth, that slowly silted shut over centuries. Look across the water as you listen, where the tombs still face the river that carries her name.