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Excavated rock art sites in Turkey · Mysteria

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Excavated rock art sites in Turkey

3 places to sift through. Narrow by kind, country, period or how firmly each one is established — contested and pseudoarchaeological claims are labelled here, never hidden.

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palaeolithic to iron age1

🇹🇷 Turkey · Megalith

Sayburç — Leopard Relief Enclosure

PPN (9000–8500 BCE) · Göbeklian

Sayburç 2021 discovery just S of Göbekli, relief 5-figure panel with leopard and ithyphallic man excavated by Özdoğan.

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🇹🇷 Turkey · Rock art

Hattusa — Yazılıkaya Chamber B North Relief

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…

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🇹🇷 Turkey · Rock art

Yazılıkaya Hittite Sanctuary

Late Bronze Age, Hittite Empire (~1300–1180 BCE; refurbished under Tudhaliya IV) · Hittite (Hatti–Hurrian)

Two natural limestone chambers behind Hattusa where 90 reliefs carved into living rock depict the Hurrian–Hittite pantheon procession: Chamber A shows 12 underworld gods, sword-god Nergal and the…