Prof. According to the information provided by Işık, many of the works extracted here have been distributed to various places. A lion sculpture is in Köyceğiz Park. The gold finds were sent to the Ankara Museum. The ones that were found in the last 10-15 years were in Fethiye, and the ones that were released before were in Bodrum museums. Some artefacts are preserved in the building known as the archaeologists’ house in Kaunos.

As you can see, when you come to Dalyan, you can visit the Ancient Kanti of Kaunos, but you cannot see the precious artifacts that come out of here. However, Dalyan’s old PTT building appears as a “museum” in official records, but remains empty.

In his work, the famous historian Herodot writes that although the people of Caunos speak the same language as the Carians, they came from the island of Crete and maintained their own customs and traditions.

The geographer Strabon from Amasya, who lived in the Roman period, writes in his book that Caunos was a fertile country, but he did not like the weather because of the very hot summer and autumn seasons. The author, adhering to the beliefs of that period, shows the abundance of fruit as the reason for the bad climate in this region. Again, according to the narration of the same author, the people of Caunos are “sick, pale-faced and short-lived like a leaf”. It is thought that the cause of this is “malaria”.