Aigai / A City - State Ruled by Goats

A City-State Ruled by Goats
Yusuf Sezgin
Aigai is an ancient city that was founded in the 8th century BC and lived for about 1000 years. It contains
beautiful, magnificent, and technically advanced examples of stone architecture of the Ancient Period. Today, almost untouched, it awaits its visitors on a hill covered with natural vegetation consisting of wild olive
trees and oaks.
Archaeological excavations in Aigai, located in the Yunusemre district of Manisa, only 14 kilometers from
the Aegean Sea, began quite recently, in 2004. Nevertheless, significant results have already been obtained.
Aigai has begun to break free from its loneliness. Some questions about the city have already been answered.
However, there are still unanswered questions and many more have emerged. In other words, Aigai is an
intriguing city, still untouched and with many secrets. But its also very eager to tell its story. To share the
sounds of its streets, the smells of its buildings, the habits of its people, the deeds of the states that ruled, the
shadows that have fallen on its walls to us, today’s people.