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🇹🇷 Turkey · Megalith
Pre-Pottery Neolithic · Hunter-gatherer (PPN A/B)
Hilltop Pre-Pottery Neolithic sanctuary with 8+ circular enclosures defined by T-shaped limestone pillars up to 5.5 m, carved with foxes, vultures, aurochs.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Buried city
Neolithic to Bronze Age (6000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Titriş Höyük — Lower Town North Gate (Şanlıurfa) in Şanlıurfa, Titriş Höyük, Turkey is a Neolithic to Bronze Age (6000–1200 BCE) buried city attributed to …
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Bronze Age to Byzantine (peak Classical Lycian 6th–4th c. BCE and Roman) · Lycian (Anatolian Indo-European) → Persian satrapy → Hellenistic → Roman
Lycian capital Xanthos and marsh sanctuary Letoon — trilingual stele solved Lycian.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
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 · Ancient city
Late Chalcolithic to Neo-Hittite (5000 BCE–700 BCE; palace phase 3400–3000 BCE; Neo-Hittite 1200–712 BCE) · Late Chalcolithic / Kura-Araxes / Hittite / Neo-Hittite
Tell city type site for emergence of state and palace economy (3400–3000 BCE): Late Chalcolithic palace (Room A 900) with wall paintings, storerooms with mass-produced bowls, sword hoard (earliest…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Archaeological wonder
Byzantine (330–1453 CE) · Byzantine
Takht Abbey Well Archaeological Complex in Central Anatolia, Turkey is a Byzantine (330–1453 CE) archaeological wonder attributed to Byzantine culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (9600-8800 BCE) · Pre-Pottery Neolithic
Gobekli Tepe Enclosure F Annex East — Western Terrace in Southeastern Anatolia, Sanliurfa, Turkey is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (9600-8800 BCE) temple complex attributed to Pre-Pottery Neolithic.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Pre-Pottery Neolithic (7400-6000 BCE) · Anatolian Neolithic
Catalhoyuk South Area Midden Trench 5 in Central Anatolia, Konya, Turkey is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic (7400-6000 BCE) ancient village attributed to Anatolian Neolithic.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Submerged site
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–300 CE) · Bronze Age–Classical
Phaselis South Harbour Submerged Jetty in Antalya, Phaselis, Turkey is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–300 CE) submerged city attributed to Bronze Age–Classical.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Classical Antiquity (600 BCE–200 CE) or regional · Classical
Hierapolis Apollo Temple Plutonion Entrance in Denizli, Hierapolis, Turkey is a Classical Antiquity (600 BCE–200 CE) or regional temple complex attributed to Classical.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Hellenistic to Roman (220 BCE – 300 CE) · Ionian Magnesians under Hermogenes
190 m stadium and palaestra 500 m east of Leukophryene Artemis temple.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Neolithic to Chalcolithic (PPNB-derived) · Anatolian Neolithic (Catalhoyuk East/West)
Largest Neolithic proto-city (7500–5700 BCE) with 18 settlement levels, mud-brick houses entered via roofs, wall paintings, bull bucrania and earliest landscape painting. Population up to 8,000.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
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 · Temple complex
Hellenistic Attalid to Roman Hadrianic (300 BCE – 130 CE) · Attalid Pergamene to Roman Asia provincial
Upper terrace Trajan–Hadrian Corinthian sanctuary behind Zeus altar.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Archaic Lycian (550–500 BCE) to Byzantine · Lycian (Xanthian dynasts) → Persian
Kınık Lycia excavated by Demargne 1950–, Harpy Tomb reliefs (British Museum) and bilingual Lycian-Greek stele.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Ionian to Byzantine · Ionian Greek / Roman
Ephesus (Efes) in Izmir Province, Turkey is a Ionian to Byzantine ancient city attributed to Ionian Greek / Roman culture. Inscribed UNESCO World Heritage Site (ID 1018).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Roman Imperial (High Empire) · Roman Phrygia (Aezanitai polis under Rome)
Hadrianic Ionic pseudodipteral 9×15 with intact vaulted cryptoporticus, Phrygian Roman gem.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Pre-Pottery Neolithic (7400-6000 BCE) · Anatolian Neolithic
Catalhoyuk South Area Midden Trench 5 — Southern Extension in Central Anatolia, Konya, Turkey is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic (7400-6000 BCE) ancient village attributed to Anatolian Neolithic.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (9600-8800 BCE) · Pre-Pottery Neolithic
Gobekli Tepe Enclosure F Annex East in Southeastern Anatolia, Sanliurfa, Turkey is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (9600-8800 BCE) temple complex attributed to Pre-Pottery Neolithic.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Pre-Pottery Neolithic (7400-6000 BCE) · Anatolian Neolithic
Catalhoyuk South Area Midden Trench 5 — Eastern Outlier in Central Anatolia, Konya, Turkey is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic (7400-6000 BCE) ancient village attributed to Anatolian Neolithic.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Pre-Pottery Neolithic (7400-6000 BCE) · Anatolian Neolithic
Catalhoyuk South Area Midden Trench 5 — Western Terrace in Central Anatolia, Konya, Turkey is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic (7400-6000 BCE) ancient village attributed to Anatolian Neolithic.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
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 · Archaeological wonder
Early Phrygian Iron Age (~1200–700 BCE; Midas tumulus ~740 BCE) · Phrygian (Balkan–Anatolian)
Phrygian capital at the Sangarius bend where Rodney Young's Penn excavations revealed a burnt 800 BCE citadel with polished pebble mosaics – the oldest known – and the great Tumulus MM: 53-m high and…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Hellenistic (350–150 BCE) with Roman annex · Milesian-Ionian Prieneans under Alexander patron
Council sanctuary with 640-seat Bouleuterion and Augustus calendar stoa 40 m from Athena temple.
