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Nemrut Mountain Turns White: Ancient Colossal Statues Reveal a New Winter Face

Nemrut Mountain Turns White: Ancient Colossal Statues Reveal a New Winter Face

A sudden wave of snowfall has transformed Mount Nemrut in Türkiye’s Adıyaman province into a stark winter landscape, giving the world-famous colossal statues a striking new appearance. Perched at 2,206 meters and listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the mountain’s Hellenistic-era monuments—carved for the Kingdom of Commagene—took on an entirely different character under a