Temple of Augustus and Rome, Ankara

The ruined walls of this Roman temple in the old district of Ankara preserve one of the most important Latin inscriptions to survive from antiquity. Built in the early Roman imperial period on the site of an earlier sanctuary, it bears the Res Gestae Divi Augusti, the emperor Augustus's own account of his deeds, carved in Latin and Greek across its inner walls. Adjoining the medieval Hacı Bayram Mosque, the roofless cella still rises high. Scholars study its text, which offers a near-complete record found nowhere else so intact.