🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Euromos Temple of Zeus Lepsynos
Archaic to Roman (Carian to Imperial) · Carian, Hellenistic, Roman
Selimiye plain Corinthian Zeus Lepsynos 2nd CE with 16 standing columns, best in Anatolia, 12 km NW Milas.
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🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Archaic to Roman (Carian to Imperial) · Carian, Hellenistic, Roman
Selimiye plain Corinthian Zeus Lepsynos 2nd CE with 16 standing columns, best in Anatolia, 12 km NW Milas.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Archaic (600–500 BCE) · Aeolian Greek under Lydian and later Persian rule (Assian polis)
Only Archaic Doric temple in Anatolia 530 BCE, sculpted architrave atop 238-m acropolis.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Late Chalcolithic through Roman (Chalcolithic, EB I-III, MBA, Late Bronze, Classical, Roman) · Western Anatolian coastal → Troy I-II contemporary → Mycenaean contact → Ionian Klazomenai
Liman Tepe (Urla-Iskele Prehistoric Harbour) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in İzmir Province, Urla District, Urla-Iskele bay, Turkey — Earliest Aegean harbour town — prehistoric port with…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Hellenistic (Rhodian Peraia) · Rhodian Greeks (Dorian)
Rhodian Peraia harbour sanctuary Doric 6×11 closing Bozukbuk bay opposite Rhodes.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Pre-Pottery Neolithic (8500-7500 BCE) · PPN Culture
Cayonu Tepesi Skull Building Annex — Western Terrace in Southeastern Anatolia, Diyarbakir, Turkey is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic (8500-7500 BCE) ancient village attributed to PPN Culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Hellenistic to Roman · Seleucid, Pergamene, Carian
Maeander university city with Apollo temple, bouleuterion-library of Strabo and 100-m theatre tunnel, Hellenistic.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Early Bronze through Iron Age (EBA, MBA, LB, Neo-Hittite Samʾal, Assyrian) · Neo-Hittite Luwian-Aramaean Samʾal → Assyrian province
Zincirli Höyük (Samʾal) — Iron Age Citadel Northeast is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Gaziantep Province, İslahiye District, Samʾal plain, Turkey — Aramaean-Neo-Hittite kingdom capital with…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Bronze–Iron Age · Hittite viceroy, Neo-Hittite Suhi dynasty, Assyrian
Straddling Euphrates ford metropolis: Hittite viceroy-capital with King’s Gate hieroglyphs and 605 BCE battlefield.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Pre-Pottery Neolithic (8200-7400 BCE) · Anatolian Neolithic
Asikli Hoyuk Terrace Trench 12 South in Central Anatolia, Aksaray, Turkey is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic (8200-7400 BCE) tell attributed to Anatolian Neolithic.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Göbekli Tepe Enclosure H Lion Pillars in Şanlıurfa, Örencik, Turkey is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Late Chalcolithic → EB I–III → MBA (4300–2000 BCE) · Pontic EBA (Kızılırmak Black Sea, Balkan-Caucasus interface)
Black Sea delta cemetery-tell (4300–2000 BCE) — 2400 EBA gifted graves with arsenical copper, Pontic metallurgy nexus.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Hacilar Level II Burned House 7 in Burdur, Hacılar, Turkey is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Neolithic through Byzantine; Cilician corridor · Cilician Neolithic → Hittite Kizzuwatna → Neo-Hittite Que → Greco-Roman
Mersin coastal tell with 25 m deposit from Aceramic Neolithic (7000 BCE) to Roman — Garstang’s Cilician Neolithic–Hittite maritime gateway sequence.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Middle Bronze to Iron Age (2000–700 BCE; peak Hittite 1500–1180 BCE) · Hattian → Old Assyrian karum → Hittite → Kaška/Phrygian
Confirmed Šamuḫa on upper Kızılırmak — palace archive and Storm-God cult city of Empire zenith.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Neolithic–Late Chalcolithic (6000–3200 BCE) · Central Anatolian (Cappadocian) Neolithic–Chalcolithic
Bor Plateau Neolithic village with painted floors, earliest copper and plastered skulls.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Early Central Anatolian Aceramic/Early Ceramic Neolithic · Central Anatolian Neolithic (Konya Plain local)
PPN ancestor of Çatalhöyük — oval wattle-and-daub houses with bead-rich burials marking early sedentary foragers.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tomb
Chalcolithic (regional) · Chalcolithic
Outer Derinkuyu Reservoir West — Derinkuyu, Cappadocia (59-14) at Derinkuyu, Cappadocia, Turkey is a Chalcolithic (regional) tomb of the Chalcolithic tradition, built c.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Rock art
Pre-Pottery Neolithic · Taş Tepeler PPN
Sayburc Reliefs Karahan Hills at Adıyaman, Sayburc, Turkey is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic rock art of the Taş Tepeler PPN tradition, built c. 9000 BCE for bedrock narrative relief human/animal/leopard.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Submerged site
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze–Iron Age maritime
Uluburun Wreck — Ancillary Scatter West Ridge (Kaş, Turkey) in Antalya, Kaş, Uluburun Wreck, Turkey is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) submerge…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Classical Lycian to Byzantine · Lycian → Hellenistic Greek → Roman → Byzantine
Lycian cliff-tomb metropolis of St Nicholas with river theatre and purple-dye port granary.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Epipalaeolithic to Early Ceramic Neolithic · Central Anatolian Epipalaeolithic → Neolithic
Spring-side rockshelter and village where Epipalaeolithic to PPN aDNA links to Boncuklu and Çatalhöyük.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
PPNB · Taş Tepeler
Sefer Tepe PPN Quarry Hill at Şanlıurfa, Sefer Tepe, Turkey is a PPNB temple complex of the Taş Tepeler tradition, built c. 8700 BCE for quarry and unfinished t-pillar hill.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Chalcolithic to Phrygian (c.4500–700 BCE; peak EB III and Hittite Empire) · Hattian → Hittite (Nesite) → Phrygian
Hattian–Hittite fortified city with Sphinx Gate and Early Bronze royal tombs rich in solar-disk bronzes.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
EBA through Iron Age; MBA peak · Yamhad (Aleppo) vassal; Syro-Hittite → Assyrian
MBA palace city (Zalwar?) with basalt lion gate, cuneiform archive and planned lower town — Yamhad-period vassal capital in Islahiye corridor.
