🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Perge
Late Bronze Age to Late Antiquity (peak Hellenistic–Severan) · Hittite Anatolian → Pamphylian Greek → Roman
Pamphylian canal-avenue Hellenistic city with twin gate-towers and huge stadium.
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716 places in the atlas, 54 of them inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age urban
Zeugma — Mosaic House Danae Room Peristyle North in Gaziantep, Nizip, Zeugma, Turkey is a Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attributed…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
PPNB · Taş Tepeler
Sefer Tepe PPN Quarry Hill at Şanlıurfa, Sefer Tepe, Turkey is a PPNB temple complex of the Taş Tepeler tradition, built c. 8700 BCE for quarry and unfinished t-pillar hill.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Multi-period temple culture
Didyma — Apollo Temple Adyton North Column in Aydın, Didim, Didyma, Turkey is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) temple complex attributed to Mult…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Pre-Pottery Neolithic (9600–8000 BCE) · PPN / Göbekli culture
Göbekli Tepe — Enclosure F Pillar 43 Niche in Şanlıurfa, Örencik, Göbekli Tepe, Turkey is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic (9600–8000 BCE) temple complex attributed…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age urban
Zincirli (Sam'al) — Ancient Citadel North Tower (Gaziantep) in Gaziantep, Zincirli, Turkey is a Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attr…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Late Bronze–Neo-Assyrian (c.1600–700 BCE; Kilamuwa dynasty 9th c.) · Hittite → Aramaean Samaliyya → Assyrian province
Perfect circular Aramaean capital Samʾal with inner citadel (double-entry) and outer town 40 ha.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Multi-period temple culture
Priene — Theatre Ancillary Stage Building North in Aydın, Söke, Priene, Turkey is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) temple complex attributed to …
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
EBA-MBA-LBA (c.3500-1200 BCE) · Euphrates EBA to Old Babylonian/Mitannian
Hassek Höyük — buried eba-mba-lba tell/village at Şanlıurfa Province.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Multi-period temple culture
Priene — Athena Temple North Column in Aydın, Söke, Priene Athena, Turkey is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) temple complex attributed to Multi…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Neolithic → EBA → MBA Karum → LBA → Iron → Medieval (6000 BCE–1500 CE) · Halaf → Euphrates EBA → Assyrian Karum → Mitanni/Hittite
Euphrates peninsula tell (Neolithic–Medieval) — 12 m double mound with Karum tablets, Hauptmann salvage.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Archaeological wonder
Early Phrygian Iron Age (~1200–700 BCE; Midas tumulus ~740 BCE) · Phrygian (Balkan–Anatolian)
Phrygian capital at the Sangarius bend where Rodney Young's Penn excavations revealed a burnt 800 BCE citadel with polished pebble mosaics – the oldest known – and the great Tumulus MM: 53-m high and…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
PPNA to Early PPNB · Upper Tigris PPN (Göbekli sphere northern fringe)
Upper Tigris PPNA village with three T-pillar buildings and skull cult, salvage-saved from Ambar Dam.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Late Chalcolithic to Middle Bronze (3500–1550 BCE) · North Syrian Chalcolithic → EBA Amuq → MBA Yamhad/Alalakh
Gedikli Karahöyük North Mound is the northern satellite of the Gedikli Karahöyük complex on the Islahiye plain — famed for its 200-grave EBA cemetery linking Amuq–Cilicia–Euphrates.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Submerged site
Archaic Greek to Byzantine (560 BCE – 1453 CE) · Megarian Greek / Heraclean tyranny / Mithridatic
560 BCE Megarian tyrant harbour — 220 m ashlar mole now –1 to –4 m under Ereğli coal pier off Acheron cave.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
EBA through Iron Age; MBA peak · Yamhad (Aleppo) vassal; Syro-Hittite → Assyrian
MBA palace city (Zalwar?) with basalt lion gate, cuneiform archive and planned lower town — Yamhad-period vassal capital in Islahiye corridor.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Rock-cut
Bronze to Iron Age (2000 BCE–300 CE) · Rock-cut tradition
Sumatar Harabesi — Cave Sanctuary Niche 3 in Şanlıurfa, Sumatar, Turkey is a Bronze to Iron Age (2000 BCE–300 CE) rock_cut attributed to Rock-cut tradition…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Fortress
Iron Age to Classical (700 BCE–300 CE) · Iron Age fortified culture
Beçin Castle — Chapel North Wing (Milas) in Muğla, Milas, Beçin, Turkey is a Iron Age to Classical (700 BCE–300 CE) fortress attributed to Iron Age fortifi…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Submycenaean to Classical (1100–386 BCE) · Ionian Greek (Klazomenai)
Archaic olive-press metropolis 650 BCE — earliest olive mills & Klazomenian sarcophagi.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Middle Bronze to Byzantine (2000 BCE–1100 CE; peak LBA–Iron) · Hittite → Syro-Hittite → Phrygian → Neo-Assyrian → Hellenistic
Gates-fort of Cilicia — Hittite to Byzantine 12 ha casemate island tell.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Hellenistic to Late Roman ~300 BCE–395 CE · Greek (Colophonian) then Roman Ionian
Underground water-oracle of Apollo where prophet drank sacred pool to versify prophecies.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Hellenistic to Roman Imperial 281 BCE–300 CE · Seleucid Greek over Carian; later Roman
Seleucid league city and Hekate crossroads sanctuary linked by 8 km sacred way with frieze.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Fortress
Iron Age to Classical (700 BCE–300 CE) · Iron Age fortified culture
Van Fortress (Tushpa) — East Bastion in Van, Van Fortress, Turkey is a Iron Age to Classical (700 BCE–300 CE) fortress attributed to Iron Age fortified cul…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Halaf to Medieval Islamic (6000 BCE–1300 CE; peak EBA–MBA) · Halaf → Ubaid → EBA Karababa → Neo-Hittite → Medieval
Deep Euphrates salvage sequence — Halaf to Medieval fort (12 m deposit).
