Finding Sites from Classical Antiquity?
One of the things I like to do during my moto travels is visit places that I find historically interesting, particularly sites from ancient history. Since I'm particularly interested in military history, these sites are often battlefields. A few years ago I tracked down the location (well, to the extent possible) of several ancient battlefields, including Trasimene, Cannae, Thermopylae (ok, this one's easy!), Chaeronea, Cynoscephalae, Pharsalus, etc.
Anyway, next year I plan to go to eastern Turkey, and one of the things on my list is to visit the spot from which Xenophon and his men spotted the sea during the Anabasis. The problem is that I can't find the site...while I know it is somewhere south of Trabzon, so far I have not been able to find the specific spot, to the extent that it is even known. From what I've read, I think that academics have a pretty good idea about where this spot might have been, but I can't really figure out where they're talking about on a map.
Anybody know of a website or forum where people talk about specific locations of ancient sites? Not even sure what kind of forum that would be, LOL. I'm a bit reluctant to just reach out to a random local tour guide because I've found that too often tour guides seem ready to just make up whatever they don't know.
Thanks in advance for any help.
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