After some years, together with a number of other Lycian cities, Arykanda also left the dominion of Rhodes. The cities which gained their freedom formed the Lycian Union. Arykanda also joined the union and printed their own coins. This situation continued until the Emperor Claudius ended the Lycian Union in 43 A.D. After this date, Arykanda was connected to Rome. The city was called Akalanda in the Byzantine era and it existed until the ninth century A.D. After that time, it was moved to an area

on the south of the highway. This is the reason why the Arykanda ruins are spread over such a wide area, starting from Aykiriçay’s spring and continuing all the way to Sahinkaya. The ruins become more frequent over the terraces. On top of these terraces in Sahinkaya, there is a stadium which is only half as large as normal stadiums and it has seats only on one side. There are niches between the seats. There is a very well-preserved theater of Arykanda in the middle of the terrace below. There are also stairs that lead down to this theater. The seats are placed on a natural slope. Theater was built in the Roman era and it is based on a Greek plan. The top two rows of the 20 rows have Greek writings on them. The city’s odeon lies on the terrace below theater.
Professor Cevdat Bayburtoglu conducts and supervises excavations in the Arykanda ruins and every year, his research team discovers new structures. On the western side of theater and agora, on the upper terrace, there are remains of the bouleuterion, which was the municipality palace. The seats of this building are carved in rocks. There is a long stoa before the bouleuterion and in front of the stora, there is a water tank.

Between the bouleterion and the agora, there are the remains of a small Turkish-style bath and a fountain. Below the agora, there are remains of a larger Turkish bath. The first two floors of this structure still stand today. Next to the bath, there is a gymnasium and to the west, there is a house with inscriptions on it.
Above the Turkish-style bath, on the terraces, there is the eastern necropolis of Arykanda. The western

necropolis, on the other hand, starts from the cliffs to the west of the city and stretches to the spring of the Aykiriçay River.
There are very few rock tombs in Arykanda. Most of these are near Aykiriçay. Apart from the rock tombs, there are also water channels carved in rocks forming an interesting view. Evidence shows that the people of Arykanda used to get water from the spring of Basgoz. The water channels are connected to two large cisterns (water tanks) to the west of gymnasium. This section of ruins on top of the mountains has an extraordinary view.