Phaselis was built by the leader colonist Lakios in 690 (B.C). After a hundred years time from its foundation, Phaselis started to print its own sikkes. On one side, a figure of a ship's head and on the other side, a figure of a ship's back exist over these sikkes. In the mid 6th century as the persians took the control of south Anatolia again, the control of Phaselis, also passed to the Persians. The city, joined the Egypt Kingdom, the Rome Empire and Rhodos. Rodos is hided between the splendourness of the Phaselis Tahtalı Mountain and the silence of the port and the bay. The cistern, the temple, exterior and interior city walls, the aqueduct, The Domitiianus Agora, the Rectangular Agora, the Theatre, the Hadrianus Gate and the Main Street are its historical places.