🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Alinda Temple of Apollo — Karpuzlu Hilltop Agora
Hekatomnid to Hellenistic · Hekatomnid Carian, Hellenistic
Karpuzlu 350-m hilltop with 2-column Apollo prostylos and 3-km Hekatomnid walls, Queen Ada's refuge 340 BCE.
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🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Hattusa Great Temple Storage Magazine 12
Classical Antiquity (600 BCE–200 CE) or regional · Classical
Hattusa Great Temple Storage Magazine 12 in Çorum, Boğazköy, Turkey is a Classical Antiquity (600 BCE–200 CE) or regional temple complex attributed to Classical.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Xanthos Temple of Nereids Podium
Classical Antiquity (600 BCE–200 CE) or regional · Classical
Xanthos Temple of Nereids Podium in Antalya, Xanthos, Turkey is a Classical Antiquity (600 BCE–200 CE) or regional temple complex attributed to Classical.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Göbekli Tepe Enclosure H Lion Pillars
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
İkiztepe
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 · Tell
Çadır Höyük (Sorgun)
Late Chalcolithic through Byzantine; EBA II-III, Hittite, Phrygian, Byzantine · Central Anatolian; Late Chalcolithic, EBA, Hittite Empire, Phrygia
Pleiades Bronze-Iron Age plateau tell (240×140 m) with Chalcolithic to Hittite-Phrygian stratigraphy on Kanak Su, Yozgat — type-site for plateau continuity.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Submerged site
Kekova – Sunken City of Dolichiste (Simena)
Lycian to Byzantine (Hellenistic 4th c. BCE – 7th c. CE) · Lycian / Greek / Roman / Byzantine
Lycian harbour town Dolichiste subsided by 2nd c. earthquakes along 500 m of Kekova Island — sarcophagi awash.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Mezraa-Teleilat
PPNA through Ubaid (c.9600–5500 BCE); PPNA, PPNB, Halaf, Ubaid · Upper Euphrates Neolithic (Mezraa phase) → Halaf → Ubaid
Neolithic–Halaf Euphrates tell (c.9600–5500 BCE) with PPNA round huts to Halaf painted pottery — Euphrates Neolithic type-site.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Yumuktepe (Yümüktepe)
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
Kayalıpınar (ancient Šamuḫa)
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
Köşk Höyük
Neolithic–Late Chalcolithic (6000–3200 BCE) · Central Anatolian (Cappadocian) Neolithic–Chalcolithic
Bor Plateau Neolithic village with painted floors, earliest copper and plastered skulls.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Norsuntepe
Chalcolithic–Iron Age (c.4000–800 BCE) · Ubaid → Early Transcaucasian → Hurrian → Hittite → Urartian hinterland
Keban rescue tell (Ubaid–Iron Age, 35 m high, EBA palace) now submerged under Lake Keban.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Boncuklu Höyük
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
Outer Derinkuyu Reservoir West — Derinkuyu, Cappadocia (59-14)
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 · Submerged site
Antiochia ad Maeandrum – Silted Maeander Harbour at Kuyucak
Seleucid to Byzantine (c. 280 BCE – 1200 CE) · Seleucid Greek / Carian / Byzantine
Maeander river harbour 18 km inland – quay buried 5 m at Kuyucak plain.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Oylum Höyük Lower Town
Chalcolithic to Medieval (4000 BCE–1400 CE) · North Syrian → Hittite → Neo-Assyrian → Islamic
Oylum Höyük Lower Town is the 30-ha extra-mural city wrapping the 20-m citadel on the Kilis plain.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Rock art
Sayburc Reliefs Karahan Hills
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 · Temple complex
Central Hattusa Temple B — Hattusa (60-24)
Early Historic (regional) · Early Historic
Central Hattusa Temple B — Hattusa (60-24) at Hattusa, Turkey is a Early Historic (regional) temple complex of the Early Historic tradition, built c. 2500 BCE for temple and associated settlement.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Submerged site
Uluburun Wreck — Ancillary Scatter West Ridge (Kaş, Turkey)
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 · Earthwork
Lower Hattusa Necropolis II — Hattusa (60-10)
Chalcolithic (regional) · Chalcolithic
Lower Hattusa Necropolis II — Hattusa (60-10) at Hattusa, Turkey is a Chalcolithic (regional) contested of the Chalcolithic tradition, built c. 1800 BCE for necropolis and associated settlement.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Myra and Andriake
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 · Archaeological wonder
Old Hattusa Reservoir A — Hattusa (60-44)
Iron Age (regional) · Iron Age
Old Hattusa Reservoir A — Hattusa (60-44) at Hattusa, Turkey is a Iron Age (regional) archaeological wonder of the Iron Age tradition, built c. 3000 BCE for reservoir and associated settlement.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Ulucak Hoyuk Izmir Aegean Neolithic
Early Neolithic · Aegean Neolithic
Ulucak Hoyuk Izmir Aegean Neolithic at Izmir, Kemalpaşa, Turkey is a Early Neolithic ancient village of the Aegean Neolithic tradition, built c. 6400 BCE for westernmost aegean neolithic tell.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Zinciriye Madrasa — Ancillary Iwan Niche (Mardin)
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Multi-period temple culture
Zinciriye Madrasa — Ancillary Iwan Niche (Mardin) in Mardin, Zinciriye, Turkey is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) temple complex attributed to …