🇹🇷 Turkey · Submerged site
Krya — Karia Murex Dye Station
Classical–Hellenistic (500 BCE–200 BCE) · Karian
Krya — Karia Murex Dye Station in Muğla Province, Turkey is a Classical–Hellenistic (500 BCE–200 BCE) submerged-city attributed to Karian.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Rock-cut
Pinara — Rock Tombs Minaret Extension
Lycian (500 BCE–200 CE) · Lycian (Pinara)
Pinara — Rock Tombs Minaret Extension in Muğla Province, Turkey is a Lycian (500 BCE–200 CE) rock_cut attributed to Lycian (Pinara). Minaret village rock tombs 20+ pigeon-hole tombs.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Rock-cut
Sidyma — Lycia Sunken Tomb
Lycian–Roman (400 BCE–200 CE) · Lycian–Roman
Sidyma — Lycia Sunken Tomb in Muğla Province, Turkey is a Lycian–Roman (400 BCE–200 CE) rock_cut attributed to Lycian–Roman. Sarcophagi field with Sidyma tombs on hillside above Calynda bay.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Letoon — Apollo Temple South Annex
Lycian (5th–4th c BCE) · Lycian Federation (Xanthian)
Letoon — Apollo Temple South Annex in Muğla Province, Turkey is a Lycian (5th–4th c BCE) temple-complex attributed to Lycian Federation (Xanthian).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Stratonikeia — Lagina Sanctuary Road
Hellenistic–Roman (300 BCE–200 CE) · Seleucid Stratonikeia
Stratonikeia — Lagina Sanctuary Road in Muğla Province, Turkey is a Hellenistic–Roman (300 BCE–200 CE) ancient-city attributed to Seleucid Stratonikeia.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Rock-cut
Tlos — Rock Tombs Eastern Extension
Lycian–Roman (500 BCE–200 CE) · Lycian (Tlos was Lycia capital)
Tlos — Rock Tombs Eastern Extension in Muğla Province, Turkey is a Lycian–Roman (500 BCE–200 CE) rock_cut attributed to Lycian (Tlos was Lycia capital).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Calynda — Karia-Lycia Border City
Classical (500 BCE) · Karian–Lycian border
Calynda — Karia-Lycia Border City in Muğla Province, Turkey is a Classical (500 BCE) ancient-city attributed to Karian–Lycian border.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Fortress
Trbmsa (Telmessos inland) — Telmessos Upland Fort
Lycian (600 BCE) · Lycian
Trbmsa (Telmessos inland) — Telmessos Upland Fort in Muğla Province, Turkey is a Lycian (600 BCE) fortress attributed to Lycian.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Rock-cut
Kaunos — Rock Tomb Annexe at Dalyan Lake Channel
Lycian / Karian (4th c. BCE) · Carian–Lycian border Kaunos
Kaunos — Rock Tomb Annexe at Dalyan Lake Channel in Muğla Province, Turkey is a Lycian / Karian (4th c. BCE) rock_cut attributed to Carian–Lycian border Kaunos.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Halicarnassus Mausoleum Terrace — Bodrum Hill Top Platform
Classical (Hekatomnid Carian) · Carian-Hellenic dynastic
Podium terrace of Aristotle's pupil Satrap Mausolus' wonder-tomb 353 BCE in Bodrum, 45-m wonder with 36 Ionic columns.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Submerged site
Knidos – Double Harbour of Cnidus (Datça Peninsula)
Classical to Byzantine (360 BCE – 700 CE) · Dorian Greek / Hellenistic / Roman / Byzantine
Cape Crio twin harbours — northern trireme sheds silted and southern mole now 3.2 m submerged, warning yachts at Knidos.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Kastabos Temple of Hemithea — Hisarburnu Peninsula
Classical to Hellenistic · Rhodian Greek, Carian
Hisarburnu healing sanctuary of Hemithea half-goddess with 35-m altar and incubation stoa, 4th BCE Rhodian Peraea.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Euromos Zeus Lepsynos — Milas Plain Corinthian Sanctuary
Hellenistic to Roman Hadrianic (200 BCE – 200 CE) · Karian to Roman Asia Euromian
Best-preserved Corinthian Zeus temple 6×11 with 17 standing columns at Milas plain.
🇹🇷 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 · 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 · Temple complex
Kaunos Temple of Demeter and Rock Tombs Terrace
Classical to Roman (Carian to Lycian) · Carian, Lycian, Hellenistic Rhodian
Kaunos Dalyan Demeter terrace with 4th BCE altar and 6 Lycian temple-tombs, Carian-Greek border sanctuary.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Submerged site
Halicarnassus – Submerged Moles of Bodrum Harbour
Archaic to Byzantine (1070 BCE – 1402 CE) · Carian / Greek / Persian satrapal / Roman / Byzantine / Hospitaller
Herodotus birthplace — Mausolus capital with two moles now −4 m under Bodrum Marina, traced by multibeam bathymetry.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Buried city
Kaunos – Silted Harbour of the Carian Port, Dalyan
Archaic to Late Antique (10th c. BCE – 15th c. CE) · Carian / Lycian / Greek / Roman / Byzantine
Carian border port now 8 km inland — 10th c. BCE harbour silted by Dalyan delta and Iztuzu spit after 200 BCE, with intact mooring rings and theatre.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Heraclea at Latmus Athena Temple — Endymion Mountain City Sanctuary
Hellenistic (300–150 BCE) foundation over Archaic · Hellenistic Lysimachan Heracleans with Karian memory
Athena peripteros 6×11 on cyclopean walled acropolis above Bafa Lake Endymion heroon.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Hyllarima Temple of Zeus Hyllos — Kavaklıdere Upland
Classical to Roman · Carian, Hellenistic
850-m Kavaklıdere upland Zeus Hyllos 2nd BCE prostylos with agora odeion, Chrysaoric League pastoral city.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Euromos Temple of Zeus Lepsynos
Archaic to Roman (Carian to Imperial) · Carian, Hellenistic, Roman
Selimiye plain Corinthian Zeus Lepsynos 2nd CE with 16 standing columns, best in Anatolia, 12 km NW Milas.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Cave
Girmeler Cave
Epipalaeolithic to Early Chalcolithic (c.14,000–5500 BCE) · Anatolian Epipalaeolithic → Aceramic Neolithic → Chalcolithic
Lycian karst cave (14 ka) with Epipalaeolithic burials to Aceramic Neolithic herding above Fethiye.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Herakleia ad Latmos — Athena Temple on Granos Hill
Hellenistic · Hekatomnid Carian, Hellenistic
Lake Bafa gneiss city with 6.5-km Hellenistic walls and 3rd BCE Athena temple above Endymion grotto.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Iasos Agora Temple — Kıyıköy Fishing Harbour Sanctuary
Archaic to Roman (700 BCE – 400 CE) · Karian–Ionian Iasians with Athenian attachment
Harbour hill temple atop agora overlooking double harbours and garum vats.