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Anavarza

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Miniature relief of Anavarza
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Have you ever wondered where the roots of a medicine you buy at the pharmacy today might lie? Part of the answer may be at the foot of a rock that rises suddenly in the middle of Çukurova. For in the 1st century AD, in the city at the foot of this rock, a physician was born who would write one of the longest-lived books in the history of medicine: Pedanius Dioscorides.