🇹🇷 Turkey · Rock art
Barrow Rock Shelter
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 · Rock shelter
Beldibi Rock Shelter
Epipalaeolithic (14000–9000 BCE) · Epipalaeolithic
Epipalaeolithic (14000–9000 BCE) rock-shelter of Epipalaeolithic in Antalya Province, Kemer (c.14000 BCE).
🇹🇷 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…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Rock art
Sayburc Reliefs Karahan Hills
Pre-Pottery Neolithic · Taş Tepeler PPN
Sayburc Reliefs Karahan Hills at Adıyaman, Sayburc, Turkey is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic rock art of the Taş Tepeler PPN tradition, built c. 9000 BCE for bedrock narrative relief human/animal/leopard.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Pınarbaşı Höyük
Epipalaeolithic to Early Ceramic Neolithic · Central Anatolian Epipalaeolithic → Neolithic
Spring-side rockshelter and village where Epipalaeolithic to PPN aDNA links to Boncuklu and Çatalhöyük.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Sayburç
Pre-Pottery Neolithic A–B · Taş Tepeler / Upper Mesopotamian PPN
Taş Tepeler PPN sanctuary with narrative leopard-human-phallus reliefs matching Karahan Tepe phallic imagery.
🇹🇷 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.
🇹🇷 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…