🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Giricano Tepe
Middle Bronze to Iron (c.1800–600 BCE) · Mitanni → Middle Assyrian → Neo-Assyrian
Middle Bronze to Iron Age mound (160 m diameter, 12 m high) on the Upper Tigris, salvage west of the Batman–Tigris confl...
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🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Middle Bronze to Iron (c.1800–600 BCE) · Mitanni → Middle Assyrian → Neo-Assyrian
Middle Bronze to Iron Age mound (160 m diameter, 12 m high) on the Upper Tigris, salvage west of the Batman–Tigris confl...
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Hellenistic (350–150 BCE) with Roman annex · Milesian-Ionian Prieneans under Alexander patron
Council sanctuary with 640-seat Bouleuterion and Augustus calendar stoa 40 m from Athena temple.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Early Bronze Age (c.3000–2300 BCE) with Phrygian/Classical caps · Northwestern Anatolian EBA → Phrygian
Stratified Early Bronze Age mound (300 × 200 m, 12 m high) on the Porsuk upper Sakarya, excavated by Manfred Korfmann 19...
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Late Chalcolithic to EBA III (4200–2000 BCE) · Pontic Chalcolithic–EBA (Bafra horizon; Maikop affinities)
Pontic coastal necropolis 4200–2000 BCE — 600 graves, arsenical bronze.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Neolithic–Early Bronze (6850–3000 BCE) · Aegean Neolithic
Neolithic–Early Bronze (6850–3000 BCE) Aegean Neolithic tell at Izmir Province, Kemalpaşa – longest continuous aegean neolithic sequence (dims Mound 15 m high, levels I–IVb over 45 building horizons).
🇹🇷 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
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 · 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
Halaf to EBA III (5600–2000 BCE; main 3100–2000 BCE) · Halaf → Uruk interaction → EBA Karababa and Transcaucasian
EBA terrace tell on Suruç plain — Halaf under EBA jar-burial cemetery.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Rock art
Roman (300 BCE–500 CE) · Roman
Barrow Rock Shelter in Central Anatolia, Turkey is a Roman (300 BCE–500 CE) rock art attributed to Roman culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Chalcolithic to EBA II (4900–2300 BCE) · Obed → Late Uruk → EBA Karababa
EBA low mound with Uruk citadel — 4900 BCE to 2300 BCE furnace village.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Hellenistic (300–150 BCE) foundation over Archaic · Hellenistic Lysimachan Heracleans with Karian memory
Athena peripteros 6×11 on cyclopean walled acropolis above Bafa Lake Endymion heroon.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Period Late Holocene · Regional culture Mideast-Tell
Rock-Cut Tomb Cluster Mideast 96 — Turkey Region 12 in Turkey Region 12, Turkey is a Iron Age tell with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Archaeic Greek to Roman Imperial 10th c. BCE–3rd c. CE, Artemision 550 BCE · Greek Ionian then Roman
Roman Asian capital with Artemis Wonder remnant and Library of Celsus.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Hydraulic works
Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Local Neolithic
Pushkarini Tank Steps North in Cappadocia, Turkey is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) hydraulic attributed to Local Neolithic culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Hydraulic works
Period Classical · Regional culture Misc-Hydraulic
Pyramid Outlier Misc 97 — Turkey Region 1 in Turkey Region 1, Turkey is a Iron Age hydraulic with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Period Classical · Regional culture Mideast-Tell
Rock-Cut Tomb Cluster Mideast 107 — Turkey Region 11 in Turkey Region 11, Turkey is a Iron Age tell with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Hydraulic works
Period Late Holocene · Regional culture Misc-Hydraulic
Tell of Painted Ware Misc 20 — Turkey Region 8 in Turkey Region 8, Turkey is a Neolithic hydraulic with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Late Antiquity / Byzantine 532–537 CE, Ottoman additions 1453– · Byzantine Greek to Ottoman Islamic
Justinian's 537 CE dome on pendentives – seminal Byzantine basilica-monsoon turned mosque.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Hellenistic to Roman (300 BCE – 300 CE) · Ionian Teian with Hellenistic king patronage
Upper terrace of Technitai Dionysus sanctuary above theatre and harbour.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Fortified city
Chalcolithic to Iron Age (c.5500 BCE–600 CE; Hittite capital eastern quarters) · Chalcolithic → Hittite Empire → Phrygian → Iron Age polity → Byzantine
Eastern citadel of Hittite Hattusa on Budaközü gorge — silos and Iron Age polity above Boğazköy.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Pre-Pottery Neolithic (9600–8000 BCE) · Pre-Pottery Neolithic
Karahan Tepe — Urfa Plain in Şanlıurfa Province, Tek Tek Mountains, Turkey is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic (9600–8000 BCE) temple complex attributed to Pre-Pottery Neolithic culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Lydian Archaic to Roman (550 BCE – 400 CE) · Lydian to Hellenistic to Roman Sardian
100 m Lydian–Hellenistic Artemis temple on Pactolus gold terrace.
