🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Sanctuary of Demeter at Knidos
Classical to Hellenistic (350–100 BCE peak) · Dorian Greek (Knidian polis)
Peninsula-tip Demeter terrace Doric prostylos with thesmophoria pits and Knidos double harbour.
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🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Letoon Temple of Leto South Altar
Classical Antiquity (600 BCE–200 CE) or regional · Classical
Letoon Temple of Leto South Altar in Muğla, Letoon, Turkey is a Classical Antiquity (600 BCE–200 CE) or regional temple complex attributed to Classical.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Submerged site
Iasos – Submerged Agora Harbour of Caria
Archaic to Byzantine (800 BCE – 700 CE) · Argive Greek / Carian / Hellenistic / Roman
Carian fishopolis — 120 m agora stoa now −3 m under Güllük Gulf with red marble quarries and isthmus lagoon.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Göbekli Tepe Karahan Ridge Quarry
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Göbekli Tepe Karahan Ridge Quarry in Şanlıurfa, Karahan, Turkey is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Ephesus Terrace House 2 Hall of Muses
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Ephesus Terrace House 2 Hall of Muses in Izmir, Selçuk, Turkey is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Magnesia on the Maeander — Temple of Artemis Leukophryene
Archaic to Byzantine (1100 BCE – 600 CE) · Aeolian/Ionian Greek and Roman (Pergamene)
Hermogenes' pseudodipteral Artemis temple 150 BCE — Vitruvian beautiful after Ephesus.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Körtik Tepe
PPNA to early PPNB (Late Epipaleolithic → Neolithic) · Pre-Pottery Neolithic (PPNA, Upper Tigris forager-cultivators)
PPNA buried village (11200–9500 cal BP) with 400 burials under round-house floors — Upper Tigris type-site for Neolithic mortuary behaviour, Ilısu salvage.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Hyllarima Temple of Zeus Hyllos — Kavaklıdere Upland
Classical to Roman · Carian, Hellenistic
850-m Kavaklıdere upland Zeus Hyllos 2nd BCE prostylos with agora odeion, Chrysaoric League pastoral city.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Royal Derinkuyu Reservoir I — Derinkuyu, Cappadocia (59-33)
Medieval (regional) · Medieval
Royal Derinkuyu Reservoir I — Derinkuyu, Cappadocia (59-33) at Derinkuyu, Cappadocia, Turkey is a Medieval (regional) ancient city of the Medieval tradition, built c.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Buried city
Nevalı Çori
Early PPNB · Upper Euphrates PPNB
PPNB ritual settlement (c.8400–8100 BCE) on the middle Euphrates, sister-site to Göbekli Tepe with limestone T-pillars, terrazzo floors, and anthropogenic limestone sculptures of humans and birds…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Buried city
Titriş Höyük — Lower Town North Gate (Şanlıurfa)
Neolithic to Bronze Age (6000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Titriş Höyük — Lower Town North Gate (Şanlıurfa) in Şanlıurfa, Titriş Höyük, Turkey is a Neolithic to Bronze Age (6000–1200 BCE) buried city attributed to …
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Xanthos-Letoon
Bronze Age to Byzantine (peak Classical Lycian 6th–4th c. BCE and Roman) · Lycian (Anatolian Indo-European) → Persian satrapy → Hellenistic → Roman
Lycian capital Xanthos and marsh sanctuary Letoon — trilingual stele solved Lycian.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Çadır Höyük
Chalcolithic to Byzantine (5200 BCE–1200 CE; peak Hittite and Phrygian) · Central Anatolian Chalcolithic → Hattian → Hittite → Phrygian → Roman
Yozgat tell with 5200 BCE-to-Byzantine sequence bridging central plateau and Hittite north.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Troy VIIa — Citadel East Gate (Hisarlik)
Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age urban
Troy VIIa — Citadel East Gate (Hisarlik) in Çanakkale, Hisarlik, Troy, Turkey is a Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attributed to Bro…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Mount Nemrut (Nemrut Dağı)
Hellenistic Commagene (c.62 BCE under Antiochos I Theos) · Commagenian (Armenian/Greek/Persian syncretic) Hellenistic
Hierotheseion (tomb-sanctuary) of Antiochos I of Commagene (69–34 BCE), Nemrut Dağı tops 2,150 m peak with 50 m tumulus of crushed rock surrounded by three terraces bearing 8–10 m colossal seated…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Arslantepe (Malatya)
Late Chalcolithic to Neo-Hittite (5000 BCE–700 BCE; palace phase 3400–3000 BCE; Neo-Hittite 1200–712 BCE) · Late Chalcolithic / Kura-Araxes / Hittite / Neo-Hittite
Tell city type site for emergence of state and palace economy (3400–3000 BCE): Late Chalcolithic palace (Room A 900) with wall paintings, storerooms with mass-produced bowls, sword hoard (earliest…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Archaeological wonder
Takht Abbey Well Archaeological Complex
Byzantine (330–1453 CE) · Byzantine
Takht Abbey Well Archaeological Complex in Central Anatolia, Turkey is a Byzantine (330–1453 CE) archaeological wonder attributed to Byzantine culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Norşuntepe Village Extension — Keban Plain
Halaf to Urartian (5000 BCE–600 BCE) · Halaf → EBA Trans-Caucasian/Karaz → Urartian
EBA Keban village 2800 BCE — Karaz painted & copper crucible hamlet (Hauptmann).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Submerged site
Yassi Ada — 4th Century Roman Wreck Reef
Late Roman/Byzantine (c.350 CE commercial vessel 21 m) · Late Roman merchant (4th c. CE Yassi Ada 350 CE; later 7th c. Byzantine wreck same reef)
Yassi Ada Bass 1960 pioneer underwater arch, roman 4th and 7th wrecks same reef.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Aphrodisias North Agora Pylon — Extension
Hellenistic to Byzantine (300 BCE–600 CE) · Hellenistic–Roman (Aphrodisias)
Aphrodisias North Agora Pylon — Extension in Aydın Province, Turkey is a Hellenistic to Byzantine (300 BCE–600 CE) ancient-city attributed to Hellenistic–Roman (Aphrodisias).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Gordion — Phrygian Outer Lower Town East
Phrygian to Persian (900–330 BCE) · Phrygian (Midas)
Gordion — Phrygian Outer Lower Town East in Ankara Province, Turkey is a Phrygian to Persian (900–330 BCE) ancient-city attributed to Phrygian (Midas).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Rock art
Jomon Rock Art — Central Anatolia Annex 386
Jomon · Jomon
Jomon rock-art at Central Anatolia.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Underground city
Derinkuyu Underground City
Byzantine (with Hittite/Phrygian antecedents debated) · Byzantine Cappadocian / earlier Phrygian/Hittite use
Deepest excavated underground city in Cappadocia, connected to Kaymaklı and 200+ subterranean complexes via 8 km tunnel. Rolling stone doors 500 kg, ventilation shafts, chapels, wineries.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Maydos Kilisetepe
Prehistoric · Regional Chalcolithic-EBA
Maydos Kilisetepe — buried prehistoric tell/village at Çanakkale Province.