🇹🇷 Turkey · Submerged site
Clazomenae – Olive-Oil Harbour at Liman Tepe, Urla
Archaic to Hellenistic (c. 650–100 BCE) · Ionian Greek
Archaic olive-oil harbour – ashlar quay at –0.5 m off Liman Tepe, Urla.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Çatalhöyük Building 52 Mural Room
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Çatalhöyük Building 52 Mural Room in Konya, Çatalhöyük, Turkey is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Submerged site
Ephesus Harbour – Silted Kaystros Harbour
Ionian to Byzantine (10th c. BCE – 600 CE) · Ionian Greek / Lydian / Roman
Silted imperial harbour 600×300 m now 5 km inland – quay walls buried 4 m, Selçuk.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Soli-Pompeiopolis
Archaic to Medieval (c.700 BCE–1100 CE) · Rhodian → Persian → Hellenistic → Roman Cilician
Cilician harbour city with 1 km Corinthian colonnade and vast man-made basin re-founded by Pompey.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Aphrodisias Tetrapylon East Pediment
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Aphrodisias Tetrapylon East Pediment in Aydın, Geyre, Turkey is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Karkamış (Carchemish)
Early Bronze Age through Iron Age II (c.3000–717 BCE); Neolithic substratum · EBA–MBA Euphrates town → Hittite viceroyalty → Neo-Hittite Luwian-Aramaean
80 ha Euphrates tell — Hittite viceregal capital and Neo-Hittite sculpture city on Turkish-Syrian border (c.3000–717 BCE).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Hierapolis Plutonium Shaft
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Hierapolis Plutonium Shaft in Denizli, Pamukkale, Turkey is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Priene Athena North Stoa
Late Classical to Hellenistic · Ionian Greek (Pytheos architect) under Alexander and later Antigonid
82-m north stoa of Pytheos' model Ionic temple of Athena Polias at Priene.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Submerged site
Tion (Tios / Tieion) – Submerged Milesian Mole on Filyos River
Archaic to Byzantine (c. 600 BCE – 800 CE) · Milesian Greek / Paphlagonian / Persian / Hellenistic / Roman
Milesian Black Sea mole – 40 m ashlar river-sea mole at –2.5 m off Filyos delta.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Alabanda Temple of Apollo Isotimos
Hellenistic to Roman · Carian, Hellenistic, Roman
Çine plain 6×12 Ionian Apollo Isotimos 200 BCE with 8 architraved columns, Chrysaoric capital.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Kyme Temple of Apollo — Aliağa Coastal Dune
Archaic to Roman · Aiolian Greek
Aliağa dune harbour Apollo 700 BCE with 600-m mole and 20k theatre, largest Aiolian port (Hesiod origin).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Teos Dionysus North Temenos
Hellenistic (Lysimachus to Attalid) · Ionian Hellenistic (Hermogenes architect) and Tean Technitai guild
110-m-north altar courtyard and Technitai guild hall of Teos Dionysus sanctuary.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Tell Tayinat (Kunulua)
EBA through Iron III; Iron Age capital phase · Amuq EBA → Syro-Hittite Luwian-Aramaean Pattin → Assyrian Kinalua
Neo-Hittite capital of Pattin (20 ha double city) on Orontes — Bit-Hilani palaces, colossal Syro-Hittite sculpture and Luwian inscriptions, now cotton-buried lower town.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Sumatar Harabesi (Soğmatar)
Roman–Syriac (1st–5th century CE) with Bronze/Iron Age antecedents · Harranian Sabian / Edessan Aramaean → Roman / Byzantine
Tektek hilltop Sin-cult oasis with seven baetyl sanctuaries and Syriac rock inscriptions.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Aşağı Pınar Kırklareli Thracian Tell
Early Neolithic to Chalcolithic (6200–3800 BCE) · Starčevo → Karanovo I → Karanovo–Gumelnița
Aşağı Pınar Kırklareli Thracian Tell is the flagship Turkish Thrace tell on the Ergene floodplain south of Kırklareli — an 8-m Early Neolithic to Chalcolithic tell (6200–3800 BCE) linking Karanovo I…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Hasankeyf Höyük
PPNA to Medieval; dominant Neolithic and Medieval citadel · PPNA/PPNB Neolithic → Assyrian → Artuqid Kurdish → Ottoman
Tigris gorge tell (PPNA Neolithic through Medieval) with cliff-edge Neolithic houses — gorge-side multi-period palimpsest partly encircled by Ilısu reservoir after 2020.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Zeytinli Bahçe Höyük
Halaf-Ubaid to Early Bronze (5500–3000 BCE; peak LC 3800–3300 BCE) · Halaf-Ubaid → Late Chalcolithic Euphrates → Uruk fringe
Euphrates Ubaid–Uruk terrace tell with tripartite elite hall and wall painting.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Başur Höyük
Late Chalcolithic (LC4-5) pre-Uruk to Jemdet Nasr · Upper Tigris LC culture (Uruk-extended / local transcaucasian)
Siirt ‘royal’ chalcolithic cemetery (3500–3000 BCE) with retainer burials — copper, lapis and earliest gaming set at Uruk fringe, Upper Tigris inequality origin.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Eskiyapar Höyük
Early Bronze to Iron Age (3000–700 BCE; peak MBA colony and Hittite Empire) · Hattian / Assyrian colony → Old Hittite → Hittite Empire → Phrygian
Alaca plain tell with Assyrian colony, Hittite gold treasure and EB Alaca-culture tombs.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Ilıpınar Höyük
Late Neolithic to EBA (Marmara Neolithic, Chalcolithic) · Marmara Neolithic (Fikirtepe) → Late Chalcolithic (İznik) → EBA
Marmara lakeside Neolithic tell (5800–3500 BCE) with waterlogged wooden tools — wattle-daub village, bone sickles, then ditched Chalcolithic mound, İznik Lake type-site.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Harbetsuvan Tepesi
Pre-Pottery Neolithic A–B · Taş Tepeler PPN
Tektek summit acropolis with round terrazzo building and T-pillars, 7 km from Karahan Tepe.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Seyitömer Höyük
Early Bronze Age I-III to Iron Age; lignite-sealed · Western Anatolian EBA (Yortan-like) → MBA Hittite influence
Western Anatolian EBA proto-urban tell (170×185 m) with EBA I-III fortified town, early tin-bronze and mass burial, rescued ahead of coal mining.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Asikli Hoyuk Early Village Cappadocia
Early Neolithic (Aceramic) · Central Anatolian PPN
Asikli Hoyuk Early Village Cappadocia at Aksaray, Cappadocia, Turkey is a Early Neolithic (Aceramic) ancient village of the Central Anatolian PPN tradition, built c.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Sapinuwa (Ortaköy – Ağılönü)
Hittite Empire (Old to New Kingdom) · Hittite (Nesite with Hurrian scribes)
Hittite administrative second capital (c.1600–1180 BCE, peak 1400–1200 BCE) on two hills Ağılönü and Tepelerarası, built by Hatti kings as storehouse/forward capital during Kaskaean wars when Hattusa…