🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Hüseyindede Tepe
Old Hittite (1700–1500 BCE) · Hattian–Hittite
Old Hittite hill shrine with bull-leaping relief vases linking Anatolia to Aegean iconography.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Sultantepe
Middle Bronze to Neo-Assyrian · Hurrian → Mitanni → Assyrian
Neo-Assyrian library mound Huzirina with 600 tablets outside the gate – scholarly twin to Nineveh.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Beycesultan Höyük
Late Chalcolithic to Middle Bronze to Byzantine · Western Anatolian (Troy I prelude → Hittite Luwian)
Multi-period mega-tell (c.4000 BCE Late Chalcolithic to 1200 BCE Byzantine, peak EBA–MBA) dominating Çivril Plain on Meander headwaters, excavated 1954–59 by Seton Lloyd & James Mellaart then 2007–…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Submerged site
Sinope (Sinop) – Milesian Harbour Mills of the Black Sea
Archaic Greek to Ottoman (630 BCE – 1922 CE) · Milesian Greek / Paphlagonian / Mithridatic
630 BCE Milesian double harbour on isthmus — north 160 m and south 240 m moles subsided –1 to –4 m on both harbour sides.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Buried city
Kazane Höyük — West Workshop Quarter (Şanlıurfa)
Neolithic to Bronze Age (6000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Kazane Höyük — West Workshop Quarter (Şanlıurfa) in Şanlıurfa, Kazane Höyük, Turkey is a Neolithic to Bronze Age (6000–1200 BCE) buried city attributed to …
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Oymaağaç Höyük (ancient Nerik)
Early Bronze to Iron Age (3000–600 BCE; peak Hittite Empire 1400–1180 BCE) · Hattian → Hittite → Kaška → Phrygian
Holy city Nerik — storm-god temple over sacred spring tunnel, lost to Kaška then re-excavated.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Antioch
Seleucid to Mamluk · Greek → Roman → Byzantine → Crusader
One of the four great cities of antiquity (300 BCE–1400 CE), founded by Seleucus I honoring father Antiochos, capital of Seleucid kingdom and Roman Syria with 500,000 inhabitants at peak (Aug 5),…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Harran — University North Lecture Hall (Ruha)
Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age urban
Harran — University North Lecture Hall (Ruha) in Şanlıurfa, Harran, Turkey is a Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attributed to Bronze…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Patara
Bronze Age to Byzantine (peak Lycian League 168 BCE–43 CE and Hadrianic) · Lycian → Hellenistic → Roman → Byzantine
Lycian federal port with 1st-century parliament hall, buried Nero lighthouse and harbour silted 1 km inland.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Carchemish Outer Town
Neo-Hittite Iron I–II (1200–717 BCE) over Late Bronze · Neo-Hittite / Aramaean
Carchemish Outer Town in Gaziantep Province, Euphrates ford, Turkey is a Neo-Hittite Iron I–II (1200–717 BCE) over Late Bronze ancient city attributed to Neo-Hittite / Aramaean.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Hacınebi Tepe South — Lower Slopes
Late Chalcolithic 3800–3100 BCE (Phases A–B2) then Roman farmstead · Late Chalcolithic → Uruk contact/colonial → Roman
Uruk contact citadel lower town — Late Chalcolithic B2 Uruk colony (3600 BCE).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Kavuşan Höyük
Late Neolithic to Middle Bronze (c.6000–1500 BCE) · Hassuna-Halaf → Ninevite 5 → Akkadian → Khabur ware
Large Tigris terrace tell (320 × 280 m, 15 m high) in the Ilısu reservoir zone, excavated 2002–2011 by G. Kozbe and Halu...
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Kazane Höyük North Burned Quarter
Halaf-Ubaid to Islamic (5500 BCE–1200 CE; peak EBA 2600–2000 BCE) · Halaf → Uruk → EBA Syro-Anatolian → Mitanni → Neo-Assyrian
EBA burned quarter of 100 ha Kazane mega-tell — Uruk to Neo-Assyrian sequence.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Pursuklu Höyük
Pottery Neolithic to Early Chalcolithic (c.6200–5500 BCE) · Çatalhöyük–related Konya Plain Neolithic
Low Konya Plain mound (150 m diameter, 6 m high) north of Çatalhöyük, part of the Çarşamba fan settlement cluster survey...
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Altıntepe
Urartian Kingdom 8th–6th century BCE (late empire western frontier) · Urartian → Median → Achaemenid
Argishti II's Euphrates citadel with pillared hall, subterranean passage and ivory tombs.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Knidos Apollo Temple — Datça Peninsula Karne Island Sanctuary
Archaic Dorian to Hellenistic (600 BCE – 100 BCE) · Dorian Knidians with Triopian league
Apollo Karneios doric 6×11 on double-harbour terrace of Triopian Dorian expansion city.
🇹🇷 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 · Ancient city
Panaztepe Harbor Town
EBA to Iron Age (3000–800 BCE; peak LBA 1600–1200 BCE) · Western Anatolian → Mycenaean contact → Luwian/Ahhiyawa
Mycenaean-contact harbour citadel 1400 BCE — tholos tomb with Amber Road evidence.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Kerkenes Dağ — Median Mountain City
Median to Persian (600–547 BCE destroyed by Cyrus) · Median Kingdom (Cyaxares?)
Kerkenes Dağ — Median Mountain City in Yozgat Province, Turkey is a Median to Persian (600–547 BCE destroyed by Cyrus) ancient-city attributed to Median Kingdom (Cyaxares?).
🇹🇷 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
Alişar Höyük Lower Terrace
Chalcolithic to Byzantine (4000 BCE–1200 CE; peak EBA–Phrygian) · EBA → Hittite → Phrygian → Lydian → Byzantine
Central Anatolian plateau capital lower town — Hittite karum to Phrygian burn.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Archaeological wonder
Atlit Yam Well Extension North — Lycia Coast (Kaş)
Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Medieval
Atlit Yam Well Extension North in Lycia Coast, Turkey is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) archaeological wonder attributed to Medieval culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Sultantepe Höyük
Halaf → Mitanni → Neo-Assyrian (615 BCE lib) → Hellenistic → Islamic · Halaf → Mitanni Hurrian → Middle & Neo-Assyrian → Islamic
Neo-Assyrian library tell — 400 tablets of Gilgamesh (615 BCE Huzirina).
🇹🇷 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.