🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Troy VIh Pillar House East
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Troy VIh Pillar House East in Çanakkale, Hisarlık, Turkey is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
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🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Troy VIh Pillar House East in Çanakkale, Hisarlık, Turkey is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Alacahöyük Sphinx Gate South Tower in Çorum, Alaca, Turkey is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Epipalaeolithic / PPNA transitional (Natufian-related → Pre-Pottery Neolithic) · Sason Epipaleolithic → PPNA Upper Tigris foragers
Epipalaeolithic-PPNA hamlet (c.11ky BP) with C-shaped communal auroch-bucrania building — earliest pig management and pre-Göbekli communal architecture, Sason Stream.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Bronze Age veneer → Neo-Assyrian provincial (Iron Age) · Mitanni → Middle/Neo-Assyrian (Ashurnasirpal II–Ashurbanipal)
Assyrian imperial capital Tušhan (883–611 BCE) — 32 ha citadel + lower town with palace, palace ware and Tigris quay, burned at Median fall, Upper Tigris frontier.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Late Chalcolithic to MBA (Uruk, EBA, MBA) · Late Uruk → Transcaucasian (Kura-Araxes) → MBA Hurrian
Keban salvage tell with Chalcolithic–MBA stratified sequence — Uruk enclave, Transcaucasian (Karaz) and early Mitanni levels before Euphrates dam flooding.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Early Neolithic (Aceramic) · Central Anatolian PPN
Asikli Hoyuk Early Village Cappadocia at Aksaray, Cappadocia, Turkey is a Early Neolithic (Aceramic) ancient village of the Central Anatolian PPN tradition, built c.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Classical (regional) · Classical
Great Derinkuyu Fortress Outer — Derinkuyu, Cappadocia (59-43) at Derinkuyu, Cappadocia, Turkey is a Classical (regional) ancient city of the Classical tradition, built c.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Medieval (regional) · Medieval
Royal Derinkuyu Reservoir Inner — Derinkuyu, Cappadocia (59-48) at Derinkuyu, Cappadocia, Turkey is a Medieval (regional) ancient city of the Medieval tradition, built c.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Middle Bronze to Late Bronze to Iron Age (c.2200–700 BCE, peak Levels VII–IV 1480–1270 BCE) · Amorite / Mitanni / Hittite / Mukish (Alalakh, Yamhad dependency)
Palatial mound Tell Atchana (Alalakh, capital of Mukish) 20 ha, 20 m high on Orontes plain: Middle Bronze palace Level VII (Idrimi c.1480 BCE) 80×50 m with archive 200 tablets and throne room with…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Early Bronze to Iron (3200 BCE–800 BCE) · EBA → MBA → Hittite → Iron Age (Urartian–Phrygian periphery)
Norsun Tepe Keban Dam Rescue Trench is the southern salvage sector of Norsun Tepe on the southern Altınova plain — one of Hauptmann's Keban rescue tells with an Hittite palace (1600–1350 BCE) burnt…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Palaeolithic to Neolithic · Central Anatolian
Kaletepe Obsidian Workshop at Cappadocia, Nevşehir, Turkey is a Palaeolithic to Neolithic ancient village of the Central Anatolian tradition, built c. 7000 BCE for obsidian workshop gollu dag trade.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Archaeological wonder
Neolithic (regional) · Neolithic
Little Hattusa Hilltop South — Hattusa (60-12) at Hattusa, Turkey is a Neolithic (regional) archaeological wonder of the Neolithic tradition, built c. 2500 BCE for hilltop and associated settlement.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Neolithic to EBA · Bor Plain
Tepecik Hoyuk Bor Village Neolithic at Niğde, Tepecik, Turkey is a Neolithic to EBA ancient village of the Bor Plain tradition, built c. 6500 BCE for long sequence village with animal pens.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Late Chalcolithic (Uruk) through Middle Bronze Age; EBA I–III urban · Uruk → EBA Euphrates urban → MBA Syro-Anatolian
Euphrates bend urban tell (c.3500–1600 BCE) with EBA II–III walled lower town — Chicago Atatürk Dam salvage type-site.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Rock art
Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) · Palaeolithic to Iron Age
Hattusa — Yazılıkaya Chamber B North Relief in Çorum, Boğazkale, Hattusa, Turkey is a Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) rock art attributed…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
PPNB to Late Islamic (8500 BCE–1400 CE) · Upper Tigris PPN → Halaf/Ubaid → Uruk → Mitanni → Assyrian → Islamic
Ilısu rescue mound with PPNB–Mitanni–Assyrian sequence before Tigris inundation.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
EBA-MBA-LBA (c.3500-1200 BCE) · Euphrates EBA to Old Babylonian/Mitannian
Çavi Tarlası — buried eba-mba-lba tell/village at Şanlıurfa Province.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Multi-period temple culture
Laodicea — Zeus Temple North Column (Denizli, Lykos) in Denizli, Laodicea, Turkey is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) temple complex attributed …
🇹🇷 Turkey · Hydraulic works
Early Bronze to Medieval (3000 BCE–1400 CE) · Hydraulic culture
Patara — Lighthouse Ancillary Wharf North (Lycian) in Antalya, Kaş, Patara, Turkey is a Early Bronze to Medieval (3000 BCE–1400 CE) hydraulic attributed to…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Multi-period temple culture
Aphrodisias — Tetrapylon North Pediment in Aydın, Karacasu, Aphrodisias, Turkey is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) temple complex attributed to…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
PPNA to early PPNB (8600–7900 BCE) · PPNB Nemrik-Pre-Pottery Euphrates
PPNB T-pillar cult ridge — 8400 BCE terrazzo temple north bank (Hauptmann).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Late Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age (c.3500–2200 BCE) · Late Chalcolithic → Early Transcaucasian/Karabaz
Altınova EBA cemetery-village (c.3500–2200 BCE, 47 cist graves, Karaz ware) by Lake Keban.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Multi-period temple culture
Pergamum — Asklepieion North Stoa Ancillary in İzmir, Bergama, Pergamum, Turkey is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) temple complex attributed to…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Hydraulic works
Early Bronze to Medieval (3000 BCE–1400 CE) · Hydraulic culture
Dara (Anastasiopolis) — Cistern West Arch in Mardin, Dara, Turkey is a Early Bronze to Medieval (3000 BCE–1400 CE) hydraulic attributed to Hydraulic cultur…
