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670 places in the atlas, 53 of them inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Middle–Late Bronze (2000–1200 BCE) · Thracian Bronze Age
Middle–Late Bronze (2000–1200 BCE) Thracian Bronze Age tell at Edirne Province, Thrace – thracian bronze age mound on thracian plain (dims Mound 6 m high, Bronze deposits with Troy imports).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
EBA (c.3000-2000 BCE) · Western Anatolian EBA (Troy I-II, Yortan sphere)
Kumtepe — buried eba tell/village at Çanakkale Province.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Early Bronze I to Middle Bronze (2900–2000 BCE) · Troy I maritime / EBA Northwest Anatolian
Troy I harbour hamlet 2900 BCE — coastal EBA tumulus with Troy Ib wares.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Megalith
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Iron Age
Dolmen de Howe Ras in Central Anatolia, Turkey is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) megalithic attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Early Bronze Age to Medieval (peak MBA–Hittite–Iron) · EB Anatolian → Hittite → Neo-Hittite/Tabal → Armenian Medieval
Large Elbistan Plain mound (300 × 250 m, 22 m high) dominating the Ceyhan headwaters, second only to Tilmen in the plain...
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Halaf (6100–5400 BCE) and early Ubaid transition · Halaf (Balikh facies)
Halaf tholos settlement 6100 BCE — keyhole tholoi with painted fine ware.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Neolithic to Iron; Amuq A-B emphasis · Amuq A/B Neolithic → Ubaid → EBA → Iron Syro-Hittite
Amuq A Neolithic type mound (18 ha) — earliest Amuq painted village (c.6000 BCE) through Iron, defining northern Levantine Neolithic base.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Archaic Dorian to Hellenistic (600 BCE – 100 BCE) · Dorian Knidians with Triopian league
Apollo Karneios doric 6×11 on double-harbour terrace of Triopian Dorian expansion city.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Early Bronze (3000–2200 BCE) · EB Levantine (Amuq F–G)
Early Bronze (3000–2200 BCE) EB Levantine (Amuq F–G) tell at Kilis Province – eb hamlet on basalt ridge south of oylum (dims Mound 100×80 m, 6 m EB).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Late Neolithic to Early Chalcolithic (6000–5000 BCE; Levels I–III) · Cappadocian Neolithic–Chalcolithic with Halaf links
Neolithic skull-cult village 6000 BCE — plastered skulls and relief houses.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Hellenistic to Roman (220 BCE – 300 CE) · Ionian Magnesians under Hermogenes
190 m stadium and palaestra 500 m east of Leukophryene Artemis temple.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Hillfort
Yayoi (300 BCE–300 CE) · Yayoi
Salina Hillfort in Central Anatolia, Turkey is a Yayoi (300 BCE–300 CE) hillfort attributed to Yayoi culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Hellenistic to Roman (200 BCE – 250 CE) · Seleucid foundation to Rhodian to Roman Karian
Largest Hekate temple 8×11 with Gigantomachy frieze linked via 9 km Sacred Way to city.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
EBA II–III (2600–2000 BCE) · North-Central Anatolian EBA (Alaca-Horoztepe horizon)
EBA elite shaft-cemetery 2500 BCE — gold diadems & stag stands (Özgüç).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Early Bronze Age to Iron Age (c.3000–600 BCE) · Hurrian → Mittanian → Neo-Assyrian
Nusaybin palatial tell 13 m high (Mitanni–Assyrian palace, Nuzi ware, tablets) on Tigris watershed.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Fortress
Roman to Armenian (100 BCE–1375 CE) · Roman Cilician then Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia (Levon)
Anazarbus East Annex — Cilician Plain Citadel Extension in Adana Province, Turkey is a Roman to Armenian (100 BCE–1375 CE) fortress attributed to Roman Cilician then Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Earthwork
Moche (100–800 CE) · Moche
Ditch Stone Mound Complex in Central Anatolia, Turkey is a Moche (100–800 CE) earthwork attributed to Moche culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
EBA → MBA → LBA → Phrygian → Persian (2600–500 BCE) · Anatolian EBA → Assyrian Colony fringe → Phrygian
EBA–Iron steppe tell (2600–500 BCE) — Haymana corridor walled town, Gordion-Hattusa buffer.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Neolithic–Iron (6000–600 BCE) · Halaf to Neo-Hittite
Neolithic–Iron (6000–600 BCE) Halaf to Neo-Hittite tell at Gaziantep Province – citadel on aleppo–carchemish road (dims Mound 25 m high, lower town 10 ha).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Halaf-Ubaid to Late Bronze (5.5k–1200 BCE) · Ubaid → Khabur → Mitanni → Middle Assyrian
Beşiri Tigris tell (Ubaid through Late Bronze) with 12 m sequence — Mitanni kilns and Khabur ware, Ilısu Garzan buffer salvage.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
EBA to Iron Age (3000–800 BCE; peak LBA 1600–1200 BCE) · Western Anatolian → Mycenaean contact → Luwian/Ahhiyawa
Mycenaean-contact harbour citadel 1400 BCE — tholos tomb with Amber Road evidence.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Median to Persian (600–547 BCE destroyed by Cyrus) · Median Kingdom (Cyaxares?)
Kerkenes Dağ — Median Mountain City in Yozgat Province, Turkey is a Median to Persian (600–547 BCE destroyed by Cyrus) ancient-city attributed to Median Kingdom (Cyaxares?).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Quarry
Roman (300 BCE–500 CE) · Roman
Edge Ben Quarry in Central Anatolia, Turkey is a Roman (300 BCE–500 CE) quarry attributed to Roman culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Pyramid
Jōmon (14000–300 BCE) · Jōmon
Pyramid of Grotto in Central Anatolia, Turkey is a Jōmon (14000–300 BCE) pyramid attributed to Jōmon culture.
