Dear Elizabeth,
You can get the detailed info at
www.klazomenai.com
The site is located nearby city of Izmir, easy access.
There is another ancient site called Aphrodisias ( built for goddes Ahprodite
) which is nearby my home town. The site is half excavated and there is an olive
pressing room inside the side. I made a detailed search about this olive
pressing room and its system too. It is smilar to what's been found in
Klazomenai.
At the end of the day Turkey has a lot by means of olive and olive oil. I am
even considering of a tourism project where the visitors enjoy the olive oil
culture of Turkey from picking olives to pressing their own oil, from fantastic
Turkish Olive Oil cuisine ( called zeytinyašlilar ) to thousands of years old
ancient places. However I am not sure that it would work out. The idea is simple
; The visitors would be picked up from the airport and placed in a modest motel
located in the middle of Olive Trees and only steps away to ancient sides. Each
visitor would have their own olive tree reserved for them and they would harvest
the olive and then press the olives. So everyone would go back with some olive
oil of their own.
Regards,
Ozgur Akoglu
Kuyucak / Aydin