🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Karataş-Semayük
Early Bronze Age I–II (c.3000–2300 BCE) · Early Bronze Lycian (Elmalı-Karataş) → Southwest Anatolian
Lycia's largest EB village with 180 pithos jar cemetery (3000 BCE) at Elmalı.
🇹🇷 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
Arykanda — Cliff Terrace City Lycia
Hellenistic to Byzantine (300 BCE–600 CE) · Lycian → Roman
Lycian cliff city excavated by Bayburtluoğlu 1971–, tombs of Arykanda princes and basilica with mosaics.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Buried city
Andriake – Silk Road Harbour of Myra, Lycia
Classical to Byzantine (400 BCE – 800 CE) · Lycian / Greek / Roman / Jewish / Christian
Myra's sea-gate where St Paul changed ships — Hadrian Plakoma granary beside 350 m basin now 2.5 km inland from delta silt.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Submerged site
Uluburun Late Bronze Age Shipwreck
Late Bronze Age (14th c. BCE, c. 1320±15 BCE) · Canaanite/Cypriot/Mycenaean international (hull possibly Levantine)
1320 BCE merchantman off Grand Cape — 10 t copper, tin and exotic cargo revealing Bronze Age world-system.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Buried city
Patara – Silted Harbour of the Lycian League Port
Iron Age Lycian to Byzantine (800 BCE – 700 CE) · Lycian / Greek / Roman / Byzantine
Capital port of Lycia — 64 CE Neronian lighthouse and Hadrian granary beside 400 m harbour now 600 m inland behind dunes.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Submerged site
Kekova – Sunken City of Dolichiste (Simena)
Lycian to Byzantine (Hellenistic 4th c. BCE – 7th c. CE) · Lycian / Greek / Roman / Byzantine
Lycian harbour town Dolichiste subsided by 2nd c. earthquakes along 500 m of Kekova Island — sarcophagi awash.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tumulus
Kızılbel Tomb
Persian period (c.525 BCE; chamber c.525–500 BCE) · Persian-period Lycian (Elmalı dynasty under Achaemenid satrapy)
Persian-period painted chamber tomb (525 BCE) with 2.5 m banquet frieze under tumulus at Elmalı.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Corycus (Lycia)
Corycus (Ancient Greek: Κώρυκος, romanized: Korykos) was a Greek port city in ancient Lycia. The location of the city has not been determined with certainty.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Höyücek (Höyücek Höyük / Burdur Sanctuary)
Late Neolithic through Early Bronze (6400–2700 BCE) · Burdur–Antalya Late Neolithic → Early Chalcolithic shrine phase → Lakes EBA
Höyücek (Höyücek Höyük / Burdur Sanctuary) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Burdur Province, Bucak District, Burdur–Antalya foothills, Turkey — Neolithic–Chalcolithic sanctuary village with…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Höyücek Höyük
Late Neolithic to Early Chalcolithic · Burdur-Antalya (Hacilar-associated)
Neolithic to Early Chalcolithic lakeside shrine-village (c.6500–5500 BCE) in Burdur Lake District, famous for 'Martyrium' burnt shrine phase with mother-goddess and leopard reliefs, and hoard of…