The Library of Celsus is an ancient Roman building in the city of Ephesus, Anatolia, now a part of Selcuk, Turkey. It was built in honour of the Roman Senator Tiberius Julius Celsus Polemaeanus and was completed by his son Gaius Julius Aquila. Celsus had been consul in 92 AD, Governor of Asia in 115 AD and a wealthy and popular citizen. He was a native of nearby Sardis and one of the first purely Greek men to become a Consul of Rome and he is honoured both as a Roman and a Greek on the library itself. Celsus paid for the construction of the library with his own personal wealth. Built to store 12,000 scrolls, the library became a monumental tomb for Celsus. He is buried in a sarcophagus beneath the library, in the main entrance which is both a crypt and a sepulchral monument to him. It was very unusual for people to be buried within city limits, let alone in a library, so this was a very high honour for Celsus.... "Oh NO!!!! not the dreaded holiday snaps"...sorry but I love Ephesus, we first visited about nine years ago and returned this year. They've uncovered so much more but still barely scratched the surface. Although areas they are actually working are cordoned off, they are happy for you to climb and scramble over the rest of it....seems strange and almost wrong on a 2000 year old monument.....but you just can't help yourself...it's great. Sorry about the 'clutter'...I thought about asking them all to get out of the way but........More, if anyone's interested?