Silifke Castle, which is understood to belong to the Hellenistic or Early Roman Period according to its basic findings, today appears a medieval castle as a result of the repairs and changes undertaken. The oval-shaped castle is built on a hill dominating Silifke and surrounded by ditches. There are ruins of arched galleries, water reservoirs, tanks and other structures inside the castle. 

The famous traveler Evliya Çelebi wrote in his Travelogue that there were 23 bastions, a mosque and 60 houses in the Silifke Castle in the 17th century. However, since some of the bastions and the structures inside the castle are completely ruined, it is not possible to make a full determination. There are 10 bastions that can still be seen in the castle.

Source: Mersin Provincial Directorate of Culture and Tourism Archive.

With the spread of Christianity in the region since the 5th century, the number of churches in the city increased. After the Byzantine, Turks who established domination in the region, named the city with the name of the high tower, Uzuncaburç, has reached today.

The collapses can be seen in the geography of Clicia, and the most famous ones are the Heaven and Hell Caves. The ancient city, known as Kanytelleis, is located around a pothole around a 30 m wide, 50 m deep pond. In the center, which is known to have experienced its most brilliant period in the 4th century AD, remains of Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine periods can be seen. Kanytelleis was discovered in the middle of the 19th century by a French traveler Victor Langlois and excavated in the 1970s.

The most well-preserved historical ruins in Mersin, which is home to important ancient cities of the Mediterranean, are found in Uzuncaburc, 30 km north of Silifke. Uzuncaburc, the place of worship of the Olba Kingdom during the Hellenistic Period, became a new site under the domination of the Roman Empire, capable of printing money in its own name in 72 AD.

These unknown aspects of our cities and towns are both surprising and saddening. It is a pity that even the citizens do not know what a magnificent ancient city we have. However, this wealth has a tourism value that is enough to develop all locals. In the city, the Temple of Zeus, monumental tomb structures with bastions and pyramid roofs carry traces of Hellenistic Age, while the colonnaded street, theater, ceremony gate, ancient fountain, Temple of Luck and Victory Gate are known as Roman buildings. With the spread of Christianity in the region since the 5th century, the number of churches in the city increased. After the Byzantine, Turks who established domination in the region, named the city with the name of the high tower, and thus, the name of Uzuncaburç has reached today.

The most frequently repeated figures of the reliefs of The Man Rocks in eleven separate frames are those belonging to four dead feast scenes. In these scenes, the dead are shown either alone or with their wives and sons. In the reliefs of The Man Rocks, the sons of the dead as well as the reliefs of two men were used as soldiers. Close to the central part of the slope where the dead feasts of these reliefs are located, an altar stone just above the lower platform level and a man on the left, a female figure on the right, and a composition of five steps carved into the rock to the right to sit and perform the ritual. In another relief, it is seen that a man brought a goat with his left hand by holding his horns and carried a bunch of grapes in his other hand.

In the farewell scene in The Man Rocks, the man standing and representing the deceased shakes hands with his wife, who is shown sitting. The compositions of these reliefs include two reliefs of a man in a coat, whose function is not yet fully understood, and the figure of another man carrying an article in his hand. The Man Rocks reliefs, inscriptions under the scenes (It is understood that they are the inscriptions of the names of the monks who died in the inscriptions) were examined and dated to the BC.  2nd century. There is a tower structure on the top of the hill on the right and it is not well known. Generally polygonal walling system is seen. The presence of numerous sarcophagi is remarkable.