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 · Tell

Tille Höyük

EB → MBA → LBA → Iron Age → Hellenistic (3000–100 BCE) · Euphratean → Hittite → Neo-Hittite/Assyrian

Euphrates tell (EB–Iron, Hittite-Assyrian) — 18 m island mound, Atatürk Dam salvage type-site.

🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell

Salat Tepe (Salat Cami Yanı)

Late Neolithic to Neo-Assyrian (Ubaid → Assyrian) · Halaf-Ubaid → Uruk → Karaz → Hurrian-Mitanni → Assyrian

Bismil Tigris tell (5500 BCE through Iron) with Ubaid→Assyrian 4 m graded sequence — long agrarian continuity through 5.2 and 4.2kya arid events.

🇹🇷 Turkey · Archaeological wonder

Karatepe-Aslantaş

Neo-Hittite / Iron Age (c.720–680 BCE) · Neo-Hittite (Adanawa Quwe) / Phoenician

Neo-Hittite fortified retreat of Azatiwada (late 8th c BCE) on Ceyhan River, Karatepe-Aslantaş preserves two gated circuits with 30+ basalt orthostats showing Late Hittite–Phoenician bilingual…

🇹🇷 Turkey · Tomb

Xanthos — Nereid Column Terrace North

Old to Middle Kingdom (2700–1800 BCE) · Old–New Kingdom Egyptian

Xanthos — Nereid Column Terrace North in Antalya, Kaş, Xanthos, Turkey is a Old to Middle Kingdom (2700–1800 BCE) tomb attributed to Old–New Kingdom Egypti…

🇹🇷 Turkey · Submerged site

Cape Gelidonya — Early Iron Shipwreck Bronze Ingots Reef

Late Bronze Age (c.1200 BCE) earliest excavated wreck 1960 Bass (world's first underwater excavation) and 1500 BCE earlier layer · Late Bronze ?? Canaanite ? early Phoenician 1200 BCE scrap bronze wreck

Gelidonya Bass 1960 world's first underwater excavation.

🇹🇷 Turkey · Tumulus

Tumulus of Eilean Doab

Chalcolithic (4500–3300 BCE) · Chalcolithic

Tumulus of Eilean Doab in Central Anatolia, Turkey is a Chalcolithic (4500–3300 BCE) tumulus attributed to Chalcolithic culture.

🇹🇷 Turkey · Rock-cut

Myra — Rock Tombs South Cliff Niche (Demre)

Bronze to Iron Age (2000 BCE–300 CE) · Rock-cut tradition

Myra — Rock Tombs South Cliff Niche (Demre) in Antalya, Demre, Myra, Turkey is a Bronze to Iron Age (2000 BCE–300 CE) rock_cut attributed to Rock-cut tradi…

🇹🇷 Turkey · Hillfort

Pediment-Spur Hill Fort

Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Classical

Pediment-Spur Hill Fort in Central Anatolia, Turkey is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) hillfort attributed to Classical culture.

🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell

Girnavaz

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 · Pyramid

Pyramid of Grotto

Jōmon (14000–300 BCE) · Jōmon

Pyramid of Grotto in Central Anatolia, Turkey is a Jōmon (14000–300 BCE) pyramid attributed to Jōmon culture.

🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell

Sapinuwa

Hittite Empire (c.1600–1200 BCE; peak Sapinuwa 1500–1200 BCE as second capital) · Hittite (Old → Empire)

Sapinuwa (Ortaköy, Çorum) is the Hittite Empire's second capital and military–religious administration — Building A with 3000+ Hittite cuneiform tablets (larges...

🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell

Karaz (Kahraman) Tepe

Chalcolithic-EBA (c.5000-2500 BCE) · Kura-Araxes / Early Transcaucasian (Karaz-Pulur)

Karaz (Kahraman) Tepe — buried chalcolithic-eba tell/village at Erzurum Province.

🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city

Sagalassos — Antonine Nymphaeum Upper Agora

Hellenistic to Early Byzantine (333 BCE–700 CE peak 2nd c. CE) · Pisidian → Roman Imperial

Toros Pisidian city excavated by Waelkens 1990–, earthquake 540 CE disruption, Antonine cascade reconstructed 2014.

🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex

Ephesus Arsinoeion-Octagon — Sanctuary Terrace of Arsinoe

Hellenistic to Roman (288 BCE – 262 CE) · Ptolemaic to Roman Ephesian

Curetes terrace with 36 m Arsinoeion rotunda and Octagon princess tomb.

🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell

Sarissa

Hittite (c.1600–1180 BCE; peak 1500–1200 as weather-god city) · Hittite (Empire, weather-god cult)

Sarissa (Kuşaklı) on a windswept 1600-m ridge is the Hittite sacred city of the weather-god — planned Hittite city with 2-km wall, dam and granary, built under...