🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Magnesia Artemis West Precinct
Hellenistic · Ionian Hellenistic (Hermogenes) under Seleucid then Pergamene patronage
180-m west temenos and agora stoa linking Hermogenes 8×15 pseudodipteral Artemision to Maeander port.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Magnesia Stadium-Gymnasium — Artemis Leukophryene Athletic Annex
Hellenistic to Roman (220 BCE – 300 CE) · Ionian Magnesians under Hermogenes
190 m stadium and palaestra 500 m east of Leukophryene Artemis temple.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Maydos Kilisetepe
Prehistoric · Regional Chalcolithic-EBA
Maydos Kilisetepe — buried prehistoric tell/village at Çanakkale Province.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Melid
Chalcolithic–Iron Age (4200–700 BCE), Melid proper c.1100–700 BCE · Late Chalcolithic palace → Neo-Hittite Luwian kingdom of Kammanu/Melid
Neo-Hittite Melid capital (Iron Age successor to Arslantepe palace, UNESCO 1622) on Malatya plain.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Hydraulic works
Menua (Semiramis / Shamiram) Canal (Van, Eastern Anatolia)
Iron Age (Urartian Kingdom) · Urartian
Urartian masterpiece (1,720 m, 38°30′37″N 43°21′58″E 38.5103,43.3661; also 38°29′39″N 43°22′48″E Van city) 56 km (35 mi) gravity canal plus aqueducts built by King Menua (r.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Fortress
Meydancıkkale (Kirshu)
Iron Age to Hellenistic (c.800–100 BCE) · Neo-Assyrian → Neo-Babylonian → Achaemenid
Babylonian-Persian mountain fortress Kirshu on Taurus spur with palace terraces and 30 m tunnel.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Mount Nemrut (Nemrut Dağı)
Hellenistic Commagene (c.62 BCE under Antiochos I Theos) · Commagenian (Armenian/Greek/Persian syncretic) Hellenistic
Hierotheseion (tomb-sanctuary) of Antiochos I of Commagene (69–34 BCE), Nemrut Dağı tops 2,150 m peak with 50 m tumulus of crushed rock surrounded by three terraces bearing 8–10 m colossal seated…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Submerged site
Myndus – Drowned Carian Harbour at Gümüşlük
Archaic to Late Antique (700 BCE – 600 CE) · Dorian Greek / Carian / Roman / Byzantine
Dorian Myndus — 150 m causeway to Rabbit Island and drowned harbour walls at −3 m in Gümüşlük Bay, walkable at low tide.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Myra and Andriake
Classical Lycian to Byzantine · Lycian → Hellenistic Greek → Roman → Byzantine
Lycian cliff-tomb metropolis of St Nicholas with river theatre and purple-dye port granary.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Submerged site
Myrina Harbour – Dredged Basin at Aliağa
Archaic to Roman (c. 700 BCE – 300 CE) · Aeolian Greek / Pergamene
Dredged river harbour 200×120 m at 0 m – outer mole at –1 m in Aliağa Bay.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Nevali Çori North Bank — Cult Building Ridge
PPNA to early PPNB (8600–7900 BCE) · PPNB Nemrik-Pre-Pottery Euphrates
PPNB T-pillar cult ridge — 8400 BCE terrazzo temple north bank (Hauptmann).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Buried city
Nevalı Çori
Early PPNB · Upper Euphrates PPNB
PPNB ritual settlement (c.8400–8100 BCE) on the middle Euphrates, sister-site to Göbekli Tepe with limestone T-pillars, terrazzo floors, and anthropogenic limestone sculptures of humans and birds…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Norsuntepe
Chalcolithic–Iron Age (c.4000–800 BCE) · Ubaid → Early Transcaucasian → Hurrian → Hittite → Urartian hinterland
Keban rescue tell (Ubaid–Iron Age, 35 m high, EBA palace) now submerged under Lake Keban.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Norşuntepe Village Extension — Keban Plain
Halaf to Urartian (5000 BCE–600 BCE) · Halaf → EBA Trans-Caucasian/Karaz → Urartian
EBA Keban village 2800 BCE — Karaz painted & copper crucible hamlet (Hauptmann).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Notion Apollo South Agora
Archaic to Roman Imperial · Aeolian then Ionian (Notion as Colophon port)
South agora with bouleuterion and Hadrianic nymphaeum below Notion Apollo temple over Aegean.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Notion Necropolis-Agora — Apollo Claros Necropolis Grid
Archaic to Roman (700 BCE – 300 CE) · Aeolian to Ionian Notians
Necropolis-agora with painted tombs and Apollo sacred way 600 m from temple.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Olba and Diocaesarea (Uzuncaburç)
Hellenistic to Byzantine (c.300 BCE–600 CE) · Seleucid priest-kings → Isaurian → Roman Cilician
Priest-kingdom Olba with colossal Zeus temple (five columns 11 m) and Diocaesarea colonnaded sacred way.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Oracle of Claros
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 · Tell
Oylum Höyük
Late Chalcolithic through Medieval; EBA III, MBA II, Hittite, Neo-Hittite, Assyrian · Syro-Anatolian; EBA Islahiye cluster → Hittite sphere → Neo-Hittite/Assyrian
37-m high Kilis plain tell (460×370 m) with EBA–Hittite–Neo-Hittite town and 30 ha buried lower town — frontier type-site.
🇹🇷 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
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
Patara — Harbour Assembly Hall and Lighthouse
Lycian League (168 BCE) to Roman (64 BCE+) · Lycian → Roman
Gelemiş harbour city excavated by Işık & Koçak, oldest lighthouse (Nero 64 CE), League inscription hall, sand-buried harbour.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Pergamon Acropolis
Hellenistic to Roman 283 BCE–3rd c. CE · Greek (Attalid) and Roman
Attalid citadel with world's steepest theater and Altar of Zeus frieze.
🇹🇷 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.