Al - yes, there are clearly ancient ruins there as...

2007-12-01T18:20:00.000-06:00

Al - yes, there are clearly ancient ruins there as well. I walked around that whole area a couple of years ago and saw pottery and some ancient architecture on the ground. I do not know if this is part of the lower city of Colossae or if it is something else.

Thanks for the heads up. They must have recently u...

2007-12-01T11:02:00.000-06:00

Thanks for the heads up. They must have recently updated the data for around Colossae. I have Google Earth hooked up to my sanctuary computer and will occasionally use it to show people Biblical locations during a sermon. I preached through Colossians last spring and used GE to show people the related cities in the area. The area near Laodecia/Denizli/Pamukkale was fairly high res; you can easily make out the excavated cardo at Laodicea. Colossae was pretty fuzzy and I see now that I missed the site by about a mile.

I did read in another board that supposedly, Hamas is using GE to find targets for their rockets. I don’t know if that true, but you can certainly see how easy it would be.

PS…Go about 2000 ft to the north of Colossae. Doesn’t it look like the outline of some kind of ruins?

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Al - yes, there are clearly ancient ruins there as...

Thanks for the heads up. They must have recently u...