Archaeological Sites in Türkiye

Adada Antik Kenti

Adada is an ancient Pisidian city near the village of Sagrak in Isparta Province, Turkey, first mentioned in a 2nd-century BC inscription from Termessos. The site flourished…

Aigai Ancient City

An ancient Greek city in Aeolis near modern Yuntdagi Koseler, Manisa Province, Turkey. Listed by Herodotus and Strabo as a member of the Aeolian dodecapolis, it housed an…

Aizanoi

Aizanoi was an Ancient Greek city in western Anatolia, located at the modern village of Çavdarhisar near Kütahya, Turkey, on both sides of the Penkalas River at approximately…

Alabanda

Alabanda or Antiochia of the Chrysaorians was a city of ancient Caria, Anatolia, the site of which is near Doğanyurt, Çine, Aydın Province. The name reverted to Alabanda after the…

Alexandria Troas Ruins

Alexandria Troas was founded by Antigonus and renamed by Lysimachus in 301 BC in honor of Alexander the Great. Located near modern Dalyan in Turkey's Canakkale Province, the city…

Alinda Ören Yeri

Alinda was an ancient Carian city in inland Caria, Asia Minor (modern Turkey), identified with the Hellenistic Alexandria ad Latmum. Perched on a defensible mountain overlooking a…

Allianoi

Allianoi is an ancient spa settlement, with remains dating predominantly from the Roman Empire period (2nd century AD) located near the city of Bergama in Turkey's İzmir Province.…

Amos Antik Kenti

Amos (also spelled Ammos) was an ancient Carian settlement located near modern Turunç in southwestern Turkey. In 2025, ongoing excavations continued to explore the ancient city.…

Anavarza Ruins

Anavarza (Anazarbus) is an ancient city in southern Turkey with well-preserved Roman and Byzantine ruins. The site features a 1,500-metre city wall with 20 bastions and four…

Ancient City of Blaundus

A Hellenistic city founded by Macedonian soldiers of the Seleucid army in the late 4th or early 3rd century BC, perched above the Ulubey Canyon in Usak Province, Turkey. Its ruins…

Ancient City of Kibyra

Rebuilt after a devastating earthquake in 23 AD with imperial Roman support. Notable remains include the celebrated Medusa mosaic in the odeon. On Turkey's UNESCO Tentative List…

Ancient City of Laodicea

Laodicea on the Lycus was a wealthy Hellenistic city in western Asia Minor, famous for its black wool production, banking services, and medical achievements. Strategically located…

Ancient City of Pergamon

Capital of the Attalid dynasty (281-133 BC), Pergamon was a major Hellenistic intellectual center in western Turkey. Its acropolis held the famous Library of Pergamon with…

Ancient City of Perrin

(1st–5th c. AD) Perrhe was one of the five major cities of the Kingdom of Commagene, located in modern Örenli, northern Adıyaman, Turkey. The city grew around a famous spring that…

Ancient City of Selge

Ancient city in Pisidia, on the southern slope of Mount Taurus where the Eurymedon River cuts through the mountains. Key ruins include sections of the encircling wall, acropolis,…

Ancient City of Sillyon

An ancient Pamphylian city built on a flat-topped hill rising 210 meters above the coastal plain near Antalya, Turkey. Reportedly founded by settlers from Argos, it was a Delian…

Ancient City of Telmessos

Telmessos or Telmessus, also Telmissus, later Anastasiopolis, then Makri or Macre, was the largest city in Lycia, near the Carian border. The well-protected harbor of Telmessos is…

Ancient City of Troy

Located at Hisarlik in northwestern Turkey, Troy is one of the world's most famous archaeological sites with 4,000 years of habitation. Nine major occupation layers span from the…

Ancient City of Xanthos

Xanthos was a major ancient Lycian city located near present-day Kınık in Antalya Province, Turkey, flourishing from around 1500 to 500 BC on a hill overlooking the River Xanthos.…

Andriake Ancient City

The ancient port city of Myra in Lycia, located in modern Demre, Antalya Province, Turkey. Its most prominent structure is a massive Roman granary (horrea) built under Emperor…

Antioch of Pisidia

Founded by Seleucid king Antiochus I Soter in the 3rd century BC near modern Yalvac, this Hellenistic city became a prestigious Roman colony titled Colonia Caesarea Augusta after…

Apollonia

An ancient Lycian city near Kilincli village in the Kas district of Antalya Province, Turkey, at 418 m elevation. Pillar tombs in the northern necropolis date the settlement to…

Arykanda

Arycanda or Arykanda is an Ancient Lycian city. Arykanda was a rich but remote city built upon five large terraces high on a mountain slope, today located near the small modern…

Aslantepe Ruins

A 30-metre-high archaeological tell covering 4.5 hectares on the Malatya plain in eastern Turkey, inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2021. Arslantepe's Late Chalcolithic…

Aspendos Ruins

Ancient Greco-Roman city in Antalya province, Turkey, founded by Greek colonists. Best known for its exceptionally preserved Roman theatre built in 155 AD by architect Zenon, with…

Assos Ruins

Ancient Greek city on the Aegean coast of Canakkale province, Turkey, founded by Aeolian colonists from Lesbos around 1000-900 BC. Its acropolis at 238 m elevation holds the only…

Atçana Harabeleri

Alalakh (Tell Atchana) is a major Bronze Age archaeological mound in Hatay Province, Turkey, located about 20 km northeast of Antakya in the Amuq Valley. The site was inhabited…

Çatalat Viranşehir Antik Kent

Colybrassus Antik Kenti

Colybrassus (locally known as Kucuk Ayasofya or "Little Hagia Sophia") is an ancient city located 30 km northwest of Alanya in Turkey's Taurus Mountain foothills, spanning…

Daidala

Daidala was an ancient settlement at the border of Lycia and Caria in southwestern Turkey, located at Inlice Asarli, 19 km north of Fethiye. Strabo identified it as the beginning…

Euromos Ruins

An ancient Carian city near Milas in southwestern Turkey, known from the 5th century BC as Cyramos before being renamed Euromos ('Beautiful and Strong') under King Mausolus. The…

Han Underground City

A lesser-known underground city in the town of Han, Eskisehir Province, central Anatolia, Turkey. The complex covers approximately 1.5 square kilometers and dates primarily to the…

Harran Ruins

The ruins of an ancient Mesopotamian city 44 km southeast of Sanliurfa, Turkey. First documented in the Ebla tablets around 2300 BC, Harran served as a major trade center on…

Hierapolis

Hierapolis is located on a terrace 300 feet above the Lycus river (modern Çürüksu), a tributary of the Büyük Menderes (the classical Meander), across the valley from ancient…

İdebessos

Idebessos or Idebessus was an ancient city in Lycia. It was located at the foot of the Bey Mountains to the west of the Alakır river valley. Today its ruins are found a short…

Işıkkale

Işıkkale (meaning the "castle of light") is an ancient settlement in Turkey. Işıkkale is located at 36°26′22″N 34°00′35″E in the rural area of Silifke ilçe of Mersin Province.…

Kanlı Divane Ören Yeri

Kanlıdivane (ancient Canytelis, Greek: Κανυτελής) is an ancient city situated around a big sinkhole in Mersin Province, Turkey. Kanlıdivane was a part of the Olba Kingdom in the…

Karakabaklı

Karakabaklı is an archaeological site in Mersin Province, Turkey. The settlement dates back to Hellenistic age. But it was rebuilt and inhabited during the Roman and early…

Kitanaura Antik Kenti

Kitanaura was an ancient city in Lycia. Its ruins are located near Saraycık, a small village in the Kumluca district of Antalya Province. The history of the city is largely…

Kültepe

Kültepe, also known under its ancient name Kaneš or Neša, is an archaeological site in Kayseri Province, Turkey. It was already a major settlement at the beginning of the 3rd…

Kyaneai Ören Yeri

Cyaneae (Kyaneai) was the second largest city in central Lycia after Myra, located near modern Kas in Antalya Province, Turkey. The oldest findings date to the 6th century BC,…

Lyrbe

Lyrbe is an ancient city in the Taurus mountains near Manavgat, Antalya Province, Turkey, whose name derives from the Luwian language suggesting very early origins. Its agora,…

Metropolis Antik Kenti

Metropolis is an ancient city in western Turkey near Yeniköy village, approximately 40 km SE of İzmir. Occupation at Bademgediği Tepe dates back to the Neolithic period. In the…

Myra Antik Kenti

By the 3rd century BC, Myra was a Hellenized Lycian city on the river Myros in a fertile alluvial plain between the Massikytos range and the Aegean Sea. After the wars of the…

Patara

Patara was an ancient and flourishing maritime and commercial city that was for a period the capital of Lycia. The site is located on the Turkish coast near to the village of…

Pednelissos Antik Kenti

Pednelissos was an ancient Pisidian city located in the hills above Kozan, approximately 30 km north of Perge in southern Turkey. Listed by Artemidoros among the cities of…

Perga

Perga (or Perge) was an ancient city in Pamphylia. It later served as the capital of the Roman province of Pamphylia Secunda. Today its ruins lie 15 kilometres east of Antalya in…

Phaselis

Phaselis or Faselis was a Greek and Roman city on the coast of ancient Lycia. Phaselis, like Olympos, was under constant threat from pirates in the 1st century BC, and the city…

Rhodiapolis Ancient City

Rhodiapolis was a compact ancient city in Lycia, situated on a hill northwest of modern Kumluca in Antalya Province, Turkey. Its Lycian name was Wedrei. Though small with only one…

Sar Ruins

The Sar ruins are the remains of Comana Cappadocia (also called Comana Chryse, 'the golden'), an ancient sacred city in what is now Adana Province, Turkey. The city was renowned…

Sidyma

Sidyma is an ancient Lycian city on the southern slope of Mount Cragus, near modern Dodurga in Mugla Province, Turkey. First recorded in the Delian League tribute lists around 425…

Soura

Soura (also Sura) is an ancient Lycian city near Demre in Antalya Province, Turkey, with origins dating to the 4th century BC. The site was a dependency of nearby Myra but held…

Stratonikeia Ancient City

Stratonikeia is one of the most important ancient city-states in inner Caria, located near Yatagan in Mugla Province, Turkey. The site preserves a Roman bath, a monumental…

Termessos Ruins

Termessos is an ancient Pisidian city built at over 1,000 meters elevation on Mount Solymos (modern Gulluk Dagi) in the Taurus Mountains, Turkey. Founded by the Solymi tribe who…

The Ancient City of Side

Side is an ancient city on Turkey's Mediterranean coast, founded in the 7th century BC by Greek colonists from Kyme in Aeolia. Under Roman rule the city flourished as a major…

Theimussa Ancient City

An ancient Lycian settlement on the northern shore of Ucagiz Bay in Demre district, Antalya, Turkey. An inscription at the site dates the settlement to the 4th century BC.…

Turunçova

Turunçova is located near the ancient Carian town of Phoinix (Phoenix) on the Bozburun Peninsula in southwestern Turkey. The area in the Phoinix district of ancient Caria has been…

Tyberissos Antik Kenti

Tyberissos was an ancient Lycian settlement located near present-day Çevreli in the Demre district of Antalya Province, Turkey.

Typalia Antik Kenti

Typallia was an ancient city on the border between Lycia and Pisidia, located on a rocky hill called Asarlik Tepe near modern Citdibi, 27 km from Antalya. The city existed across…

Zelve Open Air Museum

Zelve is a Byzantine-era cave settlement in Cappadocia, Turkey, spread across three interconnected valleys containing some of the region's highest concentration of fairy chimneys.…

Arsemia Ören Yeri

Arsameia on the Nymphaios is an ancient city located in Old Kâhta (Eski Kâhta) in Kâhta district, Adıyaman Province, Turkey. The site is near Kâhtaçay, known in ancient times as…

Elaiussa Sebaste

Elaiussa Sebaste is an ancient Cilician city founded in the 2nd century BC on a small island near present-day Ayas, 55 km from Mersin on Turkey's Mediterranean coast. The ruins…

Gulluk Mountain Termessos National Park

Termessos was a fortified Pisidian city founded by the Solymi people on the slopes of Gulluk Dagi (ancient Mt. Solymos) at 1,000-1,200 m elevation in modern Antalya, Turkey. In…

Hadrianapolis Antik Kenti

Hadrianapolis was a Roman and early Byzantine city located in southwestern Paphlagonia, Asia Minor, approximately 3 kilometers west of modern Eskipazar in Turkey. Today, the…

Hattusas

Hattusa, near modern Bogazkale in north-central Turkey, was the capital of the Hittite Empire in the 2nd millennium BC and a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1986. The site…

Kadyanda

Ancient Lycian city situated on a steep mountain over 900 m above sea level near modern Uzumlu, Turkey. Monuments and inscriptions date back to the 5th century BC, with the Lycian…

Kaunos

Ancient Carian city on Turkey's Mediterranean coast, with origins dating to the 10th century BC. The archaeological site features a fortified acropolis with Byzantine walls, a…

Korikos Antik Kenti

Korikos Antik Kenti (Corycus) was an ancient city in Cilicia Trachaea, Anatolia, located at the mouth of the Şeytan deresi valley. The settlement flourished during the Hellenistic…

Kremna Antik Kent

Kremna was an ancient city founded by the Psidians in present-day Turkey. The ruins show a Roman-period settlement built on a grid plan and enclosed by defensive walls with two…

Limyra Antik Kenti

Limyra is an ancient Lycian city located near Finike in Antalya Province, Turkey, settled from at least the 5th century BC. It became the capital of Lycia under King Perikle in…

Oinoanda

Oinoanda (or Oenoanda) was an ancient Lycian city on an isolated hilltop in the upper Xanthus valley, near modern Incealiler in Mugla Province, Turkey. The city joined the Lycian…

Olympos Antique City

Notable remains include Roman baths, Byzantine basilicas, and necropolises. The site is part of the Olympos Beydaglari National Park and on the UNESCO Tentative List.

Parion

Parium (or Parion; Greek: Πάριον) was a Greek city of Adrasteia in Mysia on the Hellespont. Founded in 709 B.C., the ancient city of Parion is located in the village of Kemer in…

Pinara

Pinara was one of the six principal cities of the Lycian League.

Priene Ruins

Priene was an ancient Greek city of Ionia located at the base of an escarpment of Mycale, about 6 kilometres north of the Maeander River. The city was built on the sea coast,…

Sagalassos Archaeological Site

An ancient city in southwestern Turkey's Burdur Province, situated at 1,450-1,700m altitude in the Western Taurus Mountains. Sagalassos was conquered by Alexander the Great in 333…

Sillyon

Sillyon is an ancient city of Pamphylia in southern Turkey, perched on a 210-metre hill. Legendarily founded after the Trojan War, it appears in 5th-century BC Delian League…

Tlos Ruins

Tlos is one of the oldest and most important Lycian cities, established over 4,000 years ago in the Xanthos Valley near modern Seydikemer, Mugla Province, Turkey. Hittite texts…

Trebenna Antike Stadt

Trebenna was an ancient Lycian city at the border with Pamphylia, located near modern Caglarca in the Konyaalti district of Antalya Province, Turkey, at 658 m elevation. First…

Amyntas Rock Tombs

A 4th-century BC Lycian rock-cut tomb at ancient Telmessos (modern Fethiye, Turkey), carved into a cliff face to resemble a Greek temple facade with a triangular pediment and…

Caunos Tombs of The Kings

Rock-cut tombs at the ancient Carian city of Kaunos near Dalyan in southwestern Turkey, on the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List since 2014. The earliest artefacts date to the…

Demircili Anıt Mezarları

Demircili (ancient Imbriogon) in Silifke district, Mersin Province, Turkey, contains remarkably well-preserved Roman-era monumental tombs dating from the first half of the 2nd to…

Demre

Demre is the Lycian town of Myra, the home of Saint Nicholas of Myra. Demre is on the coast of the Teke peninsula, west of the bay of Antalya, with the Taurus Mountains behind.…

Hatay Altınözü Yunushanı Gelinler Dağı Nekropolü

The Yunushanı Gelinler Mountain Necropolis is a Roman-period burial complex in Altınözü district, Hatay Province, Turkey.

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Imbriogon Tombs

Imbriogon was an ancient place in Cilicia Trachea, whose modern name is Demircili (formerly Dösene) in Silifke district, in Mersin province. It lay on the road from Seleukia in…

Karakuş Tumulus

A royal funerary monument (hierothesion) built by Mithridates II of Commagene between 38-20 BC for his mother Queen Isias, his sister Antiochis, and his sister Laodice, queen of…

Lycia Rock Tombs

The Lycian rock tombs are monumental burial chambers carved into cliffsides across southwestern Turkey, dating primarily to the 4th century BC. Their ornate facades resemble…

Mausoleum at Halicarnassus

The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus was a grand tomb built between 353 and 351 BC in Halicarnassus (modern Bodrum, Turkey) for Mausolus, a Carian satrap of the Achaemenid Empire, and…

Pontic Rock Tombs of Amasya

The Tombs of the kings of Pontus, located in Amasya, northern Turkey, are rock-carved tombs of different sizes, forming the royal necropolis of the Pontic kings. The royal…

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Afrodit Tapınağı

The Temple of Aphrodite at Aphrodisias, an ancient Greek city in southwestern Turkey inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2017. The temple dates to the 3rd century BC and…

Apollon Symintheion Ruins

The Smintheion, near Gulpinar in Canakkale Province, is a sanctuary dedicated to Apollo Smintheus ("Lord of Mice"), referenced in Book 1 of Homer's Iliad where priest Chryses…

Apollon Tapınağı

The Temple of Apollo is a Roman temple built around 150 A.D. during the Pax Romana era in the ancient Pamphylian town of Side, in southern Turkey on the Mediterranean Sea coast…

Appolonia Temple Ruins

Apollonia was an ancient Lycian city near modern Kas in Antalya Province, Turkey. Its necropolis contains pillar tombs dating to c. 500 BC, attesting to Lycian origins. It joined…

Archaeological Site Temple of Dionysus

The Temple of Dionysus stands in the ancient city of Teos, one of the twelve cities which formed the Ionian League on the coast of Ionia. This sanctuary was dedicated to Dionysus,…

Asclepieion of Pergamon

The Asclepieion of Pergamon was an asclepieion, a healing temple, built in honour of the gods Asclepius and Hygieia, located west of the Pergamon hill, roughly three kilometers…

Delphinion

The Delphinion in Miletus was the sanctuary of Apollo Delphinios, protector of ports and ships, and served as the religious and political centre of the ancient city.…

Sura - Ancient Oracle

Sura was an ancient Lycian settlement and oracle site, functioning as a dependency of the major city of Myra.

Temple of Artemis - Sardes

The fourth largest Ionic temple in the ancient world, located in the ruins of Sardis, capital of ancient Lydia in western Turkey. Construction began in the Hellenistic period…

Temple of Augustus and Rome

The Temple of Augustus and Rome is an augusteum located in the Altındağ district of Ankara. It is thought to have been built around 25–20 BC. Besides being one of the most…

The Temple of Artemis-Selçuk

The Temple of Artemis or Artemision, also known as the Temple of Diana, was a Greek temple dedicated to a localised form of the goddess Artemis. It was located in Ephesus, near…

Alabanda Amfi Tiyatro Tarihi Alanı

The Hellenistic theatre of Alabanda, an ancient Carian city near modern Cine, Aydin Province, Turkey. The theatre features a 19-metre-wide facade and a cavea divided into seven…

Aspendos Theatre

Roman theatre built in 155 AD by architect Zenon, son of Theodorus, during the reign of Marcus Aurelius. The best-preserved ancient theatre in the world, it seats 7,000-8,500…

Bodrum Antique Theatre

The Theatre at Halicarnassus, also known as Bodrum Antique Theatre, is a 4th-century BC Greco-Roman theatre located in Bodrum, Turkey. The theatre is considered to be built in a…

Miletus Ancient Theatre

The Theatre of Miletus in western Turkey was initially built around 300 BC as a Hellenistic theatre seating 5,300 spectators in a two-tiered cavea. Under Emperor Trajan (98-117…

Patara Antique Theatre

Patara Antique Theatre is a theatre located in the ancient city of Patara, a major maritime and commercial center that served as the capital of Lycia at various periods.

Perge Theatre

Perge Theatre is a 1st–2nd-century AD Roman theatre built in the ancient city of Perge. The theatre could accommodate approximately 11,000 spectators.

Priene Tiyatro

Priene was an ancient Greek city of Ionia located at the base of the Mycale escarpment, about 6 km north of the Maeander River. The city was built on the sea coast overlooking the…

Roma Tiyatrosu

Roma Tiyatrosu ("Roman Theatre" in Turkish) refers to one of several ancient Roman theatres across Turkey.

Ruins of Roman Theatre

The İznik Roman Theatre was constructed in the 2nd century AD during Emperor Trajan's reign, located 90 meters north of the ancient city walls of İznik (ancient Nicaea). Unique in…

Termessos Tiyatrosu

The theatre of Termessos is a Hellenistic structure built into the mountainside at over 1,000 meters elevation in the ancient Pisidian city near Antalya, Turkey. Its cavea spans…

Akdam Dorik Mezar

A 4th-century BC Lycian rock-cut tomb in Antiphellos (modern Kas), carved from a 4.5 by 4.5-metre stone block in Doric style. The single-chamber interior features a unique frieze…

Aslanlı Mabet

Arslanli Mabet (Temple of Lions), also known as Solon's Tomb, is a rock-cut tomb in central Anatolia near Eskisehir, Turkey. Dating to the 6th century BC, it was used during both…

Ayşepınar

Ayşepınar is a neighborhood (mahalle) in Develi district, Kayseri Province, central Turkey.

Belevi Mausoleum

The Belevi Mausoleum, also known as the Mausoleum at Belevi is a Hellenistic monument tomb located in Turkey. The name of the mausoleum derives from the modern village of Belevi…

Heroon of Trysa

The Heroon of Trysa is the modern name for an ancient tomb, built around 380 BCE in Trysa, in ancient Lycia in southwest Turkey. It was discovered in 1841 by the gymnasium teacher…

Likya Anıt Mezar

The Amintas rock tomb is a Lycian rock tomb at the foot of the mountains south of the city, in the Fethiye district of Muğla Province, Turkey. The Lycians who lived in the region…

Mount Nemrut

Mount Nemrut or Nemrud is a 2,150-metre-high (7,054 ft) mountain in southeastern Turkey, notable for the summit where a number of large statues are erected around what is assumed…

Tyberissos (Tubure) Kaya Mezarı

Tyberissos (Tubure) Kaya Mezarı is an ancient Lycian rock-cut necropolis located near present-day Çevreli in the Demre district of Antalya province, Turkey.

Acropolis of Tlos

Tlos was one of the oldest and most important cities of ancient Lycia, with occupation dating back over 4,000 years. Mentioned as 'Dalawa' in Hittite sources from the 15th century…

Ayanis Kalesi

A 2,700-year-old Urartian fortress built by King Rusa II on a hill overlooking Lake Van in eastern Turkey. The citadel features interlocking stone walls engineered to resist…

Dağlı Kalesi

Dağlı Castle is a castle ruin in Mersin Province, Turkey. The castle was built during the Roman Empire and later used by the Byzantine Empire and the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia.…

Eğil Kalesi

Eğil Kalesi features extensive tunnels carved directly into the rock.

Kızlar Kalesi

Kizlar Kalesi (Maidens' Castle) is a castle ruin on a conical mountain approximately 550 metres high, southeast of Cavuslu village in Mersin Province, Turkey. Dating to the Late…

Mut Castle

Mut Castle is a castle in Mut, Mersin Province. The neighbourhood surrounding the castle during the Roman Empire was known as Claudiupolis. In 1225 the Sultanate of Rum under…

Zerzevan Castle

Zerzevan Castle, also known as Samachi Castle, is a ruined Eastern Roman castle, a former important military base, in Diyarbakır Province, southeastern Turkey. Archaeological…

Belören Kalesi

Necropolis with sarcophagi. Located along the ancient road system connecting Myra to the interior, on the Lycian Way.

Castle Of Urfa

Urfa Castle was rebuilt by the Abbasids in 814 AD. Archaeological excavations near the castle uncovered the Balikligol Statue, now displayed in the Sanliurfa Museum. Today, the…

Çimdin Kalesi

Cimdin Kalesi is a fortress built on a rocky hill in southeastern Turkey. Constructed of hard limestone with white cut stone walls and bastions, the castle was used by Byzantine,…

İssium

Issium (also known as Beymelek Castle) is a fortification near Demre in Antalya Province, Turkey.

Kahta Castle

A 2,200-year-old fortress in Adiyaman Province, southeastern Turkey, believed to date from the Commagene Kingdom (109 BC-72 AD). Built as an important headquarters alongside…

Karasis Kalesi

Karasis Kalesi is a Seleucid fortress on Mount Karasis in Cilicia, Turkey. The fortress sits on an isolated ridge rising to about 1000m in the foothills of the eastern Taurus…

Baltalı Kapı

A Roman arched gateway from the 2nd century CE, the sole surviving fragment of the city walls of ancient Mylasa (modern Milas, Turkey). Known as the "Axe Gate," it bears a carved…

Hadrian's Gate

Hadrian's Gate is a triumphal arch in Antalya, Turkey, built in 130 CE to honor Roman Emperor Hadrian after his visit to the city. The arch was later incorporated into the city…

Modestus Zafer Takı

The Arch of Mettius Modestus is a monumental triple-vaulted triumphal arch at the ancient Lycian city of Patara, Turkey, built around 100 AD in honor of C. Trebonius Proculus…

Nordtor Hierapolis

Hierapolis, founded in the 2nd century BC by King Eumenes II of Pergamon, preserves its ancient North Gate (Nordtor), a monumental entrance featuring massive carved Ionic pillars…

Nysa Bridge

The Nysa Bridge is a late imperial Roman bridge over the Cakircak stream in Nysa in the ancient region of Caria. The 100 m long substructure was the second largest of its kind in…

Akkale

A Roman port administration complex in Cilicia, Turkey, built in the 4th century AD, though its main building may date to the 1st century as a palace of Archelaus of Cappadocia.…

Karahan Tepe

Karahan Tepe is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic archaeological site in Şanlıurfa, Turkey. The site is in the same geographical region as Göbekli Tepe, and archaeologists have also…

Lagina

Lagina or Laginia was a town and religious centre in ancient Caria. It contained an important monumental temple of Hecate, at which great festivals were celebrated every year. For…

Öküzlü Ören Yeri

Okuzlu Oren Yeri is an archaeological site in the Erdemli district of Mersin Province, Turkey. The site was occupied during the Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine periods,…

Şuayb Antik Şehri

The site contains remains of residential structures built in typical Roman house styles, thought to have served as summer residences for inhabitants of the Harran Plain. A…

Bahşeyiş Anıtı

Bahşeyiş Anıtı is a Phrygian rock-cut monument located in Seyitgazi district of Eskişehir Province, central Anatolia, Turkey. The monument showcases distinctive Phrygian…

Midas Monument (Yazilikaya)

The Midas Monument is the most spectacular Phrygian rock-cut facade, carved into a cliff at Yazılıkaya in Eskisehir Province, Turkey, at over 1,300 metres elevation. It dates to…

Pergamon Altar

The Pergamon Altar was a monumental construction built during the reign of the Ancient Greek King Eumenes II of the Pergamon Empire in the first half of the 2nd century BC on one…

Sagalassos Antoninler Çeşmesi

The Antonine Nymphaeum, a monumental fountain built during the reign of Marcus Aurelius (AD 161-180) at the ancient city of Sagalassos in Burdur Province, Turkey. Measuring 28…

Antik Barajı

A Roman-era dam near the village of Orukaya in the Alaca district of Corum Province, Turkey.

Aspendos Aqueduct

A Roman aqueduct stretching approximately 17 km to supply the ancient city of Aspendos in Pamphylia, built in the early 2nd century AD. Its final 1.7 km feature a remarkable…

Athena Tapınağı

(530 BC) Ruins of a temple dedicated to Athena at Assos, featuring a megaron-style layout facing east with a columned entrance. The structure combines Doric architectural elements…

Ayazini Kaya Church

A rock-cut Byzantine church in the Phrygian Valley of Afyonkarahisar province, Turkey. The settlement dates to the Phrygian period, but the church was carved during the Byzantine…

Batik Sehir Kekova

Kekova is a small Turkish island near Demre district of Antalya province which faces the villages of Kaleköy (ancient Simena) and Üçağız (ancient Teimioussa). On its northern side…

Beşkardeşler Kaya Mezarları

A three-story rock-cut tomb and hermitage complex in Ceylanli village, Kirikhan district, Hatay Province. Also known locally as Sutlu Magara (Milk Cave) or Bes Kizlar, the…

Büyük Hamam

The Buyuk Hamam (Great Bath) stands among the Roman-era ruins of Phaselis, an ancient Lycian port city near modern Tekirova in Antalya Province, Turkey. Founded by Rhodian…

Cappadocia

Cappadocia is a historical region in central Turkey shaped by volcanic eruptions from Mount Hasan and Mount Erciyes. Neolithic pottery attests to early habitation, while…

Church of St. Peter

The Church of Saint Peter near Antakya (Antioch), is composed of a cave carved into the mountainside on Mount Starius with a depth of 13 m, a width of 9.5 m and a height of 7 m.…

Derinkuyu Underground City

Residents used it as refuge during the Arab-Byzantine Wars (780-1180 AD) and later Mongol invasions. Abandoned in 1923 when Turkey's Greek Christian population was relocated, the…

Didyma

Didyma was an ancient Greek sanctuary on the coast of Ionia in the domain of the famous city of Miletus. Didyma was known in antiquity for its famed oracle of Apollo, situated…

Eflatun Pınar Hitit Anıtı

Eflatun Pinar is a Hittite spring sanctuary, located in Lake Beysehir National Park, 85 km west of Konya in central Anatolia. The site has been on the UNESCO Tentative List since…

Ephesus Archaeological Museum

The Ephesus Archaeological Museum, located in Selçuk near the ancient Greek city of İzmir, Turkey, houses an extensive collection of artifacts recovered from the nearby Ephesus…

Fasıllar Monument

A massive unfinished 13th-century BC Hittite monolith near Beyşehir, Konya Province, Turkey. The 8-metre-tall, 70-ton relief depicts the Storm God standing atop a Mountain God…

Fethiye Antik Tiyatrosu

Fethiye Antik Tiyatrosu (Fethiye Ancient Theatre) is a theatre carved into a natural hillside in Fethiye, Turkey. The cavea (seating area) retains approximately 20 rows of seats…

GOLOGOÇ VİRANŞEHİR ŞANLIURFA TARİHİ KEMER

Gologoc Harabeleri is an archaeological ruin site. The broader Viransehir region preserves extensive Late Roman and Byzantine heritage including rock-cut tombs, cave churches,…

Gavur Evi Anıtı

Gavur Evi Anıtı is a Roman-era tomb complex featuring two rock-cut monuments with unique architectural designs. The first monument displays a triangular roof, while the second has…

Gavur Kalesi

A Hittite Empire-period rock relief monument in central Anatolia, Turkey, carved on a cliff face atop a natural hill. The relief depicts three deities: two large male figures…

Göbekli Tepe

Göbekli Tepe is a Neolithic archaeological site in Upper Mesopotamia in modern-day Turkey. Göbekli Tepe is near the village of Örencik in Şanliurfa Province in the Taş Tepeler, in…

Haron (Charonian) Kabartmasi

Haron (Charonian) Kabartmasi is a rock relief in southern Turkey near ancient Antioch.

Helenistik Mabed

The remains of a Hellenistic temple stand in ancient Antiphellus (modern Kas), a coastal city in Lycia originally known as Habesos. Only the lower courses of the temple walls…

Hidirlik Tower

A 14-metre-high Roman structure in Antalya dating to the 2nd century AD, combining a square lower floor with a cylindrical superstructure. Originally a monumental tomb, possibly…

Karabal Belören Demre Antalya

Karabel Kilisesi

Remains of an early Byzantine church at the Cagman settlement (ancient Plakoma) near Demre, Antalya, in the Lycian region of Turkey. According to the Life of Nicholas of Sion,…

Karabölücülü Harabeleri

Karatepe-Aslantaş Open-Air Museum

Karatepe-Aslantaş Open-Air Museum is an open-air museum in Osmaniye Province, Turkey. The museum is located north of the 638 m-high Karatepe at Kızyusuflu village in Kadirli…

Kaya mezarları

Kaya mezarları (Rock Tombs) is a Hellenistic-period necropolis in Turkey featuring rock-cut tombs carved into cliff faces, typical of elite burial practices from 500 BC to 1 AD.…

Kekova Island

Kekova Island, off the Lycian coast near Demre in Antalya province, Turkey, harbors the partly submerged ruins of the ancient settlement of Dolichiste. The region was declared a…

Kyaneai Büyük Sarnıç

Kyaneai is a fortified ancient Lycian city perched on a steep hill in southwestern Turkey. The site features diverse tomb architecture including rock-cut tombs, chamber tombs, and…

Kyaneai Tarihi Sarnıç

Labranda Ruins

Labraunda is an ancient Carian and Mysian sacred site in the mountains of Caria, Turkey, five kilometers west of Ortaköy in Muğla Province. The site was significantly developed by…

Lefke Gate

The eastern gate of ancient Nicaea (modern Iznik), featuring a triumphal arch. The gate was further expanded during the Byzantine period.

Letoon

Letoon or Letoum in the Fethiye district of Muğla Province, Turkey, was a sanctuary of Leto located 4 kilometres south of the ancient city of Xanthos, to which it was closely…

Lukyanus Kitabesi

The Lukyanus Inscription and Equestrian Rock Relief is a Roman-period monument (1st–4th c. AD) in Konya Province, Turkey. It features a 1.85‑metre‑long horse relief carved on a…

Macedonian Tower

The Macedonian Tower in Edirne, Turkey, is the sole surviving corner bastion of the Roman fortress built by Emperor Hadrian in the 2nd century AD when he founded the city as…

Mahkeme Ağacin Kültürel Jeositi

Mahkeme Agacin is an underground cultural geosite near Kizilcahamam, 18 km from the district center north of Ankara, Turkey. Carved into volcanic tuff, the multi-storey complex…

Maltepe Tumulus

Medusa Mozaiği

The Medusa Mosaic is a floor mosaic in the odeon of the ancient city of Kibyra, in the Golhisar district of Burdur province, southwestern Turkey. It depicts the mythological…

Meydan Castle

Meydankale is a Hellenistic fortified settlement in the Silifke district of Mersin Province, Turkey, in the ancient region of Cilicia Trachaea (Rugged Cilicia). The ruins feature…

Meydancık Castle

Meydancik Castle, originally known as Kirshu, is a 7th-century BC Luwian fortification atop a 700-metre hill in Mersin Province, Turkey. It served as the capital of the Luwian…

Obelisk Of Theodosius

The Obelisk of Theodosius is an ancient Egyptian obelisk of Pharaoh Thutmose III (r. 1479-1425 BC), originally erected at the Temple of Karnak and later transported to…

Pamukkale

Pamukkale ("Cotton Castle") is famed for its white travertine terraces formed by calcite-laden thermal spring waters cascading down a cliff nearly 200 m high. Adjacent to the…

Pasli

Pasli is a Roman-era rural settlement in eastern Rough Cilicia, Turkey, situated within the territory of ancient Olba, about 10 km northwest of the coastal city Korasion. The site…

Patara Ancient Lighthouse

The Patara Ancient Lighthouse is a 26-metre-tall Roman structure in the ancient city of Patara, Antalya Province, Turkey, commissioned by Emperor Nero in 64 AD. Its inscription…

Patara Meclis Binası

The Patara Bouleuterion (Meclis Binasi) is the parliament building of the ancient Lycian League, built in the late 2nd or early 1st century BC in Patara, Turkey. The semicircular…

Pergamon Amfitiyatrosu

The Pergamon amphitheatre is a Roman-era structure built in the 2nd century AD in the ancient city of Pergamon, near modern Bergama, Turkey. It could accommodate approximately…

Perge Sütunlu Cadde

The Perge Colonnaded Street (Sutunlu Cadde) is a monumental Roman road in the ancient city of Perge near Antalya, Turkey, dating to the Roman Imperial period. The street extends…

Pisarissos Antik Kenti

Pisarissos is an ancient city in northwestern Alanya, Antalya Province, Turkey, situated on the hilltop of Gavurbeleni between Hacilar and Esen Tepe villages. Dating to the…

Roma Dönemi Agora Harabeleri

Saba in Ancient Sites

(4th c. AD) A historical landmark in Antalya, Turkey. The site consists of an ancient Lycian cave and tombs complex.

Sirkeli Höyüğü

Sirkeli Höyük is one of the largest tells (settlement mounds) of Cilicia with an area of approximately 80 ha. It is 40 kilometers east of the city of Adana, northwest of the…

Smyrna Agora Ancient City

The Agora of Smyrna, alternatively known as the Agora of İzmir, is an ancient Roman agora located in Smyrna. Originally built by the Greeks in the 4th century BC, the agora was…

Soğmatar

Sogmatar (Sumatar Harabesi) is an ancient sacred site in the Tektek Mountains, approximately 60 km southeast of Sanliurfa in southeastern Turkey. Seven circular temples arranged…

St. Jacob's Church Nisibis

The 4th-century Mar Yakov Church (Church of Saint Jacob) in Nisibis was originally constructed as the baptistery of a cathedral that no longer survives. Located in modern-day…

Stadion Laodikeia

The stadium at Laodicea ad Lycum is one of the largest ancient stadiums in Anatolia in the ancient Phrygian city near modern Denizli, Turkey. Adjacent stood a large bath complex,…

Su Kemeri

Su Kemeri is a Roman aqueduct at the ancient city of Phaselis on Turkey's southern coast near Antalya. Phaselis was founded by Rhodian colonists in the 7th century BC and became…

Tapınak

Phaselis was an ancient Greek and Roman port city on the coast of Lycia, founded by settlers from Rhodes. The city had three natural harbors and became a major trading center.…

Temple of Apollo

The Temple of Apollo at Didyma (the Didymaion) was the fourth largest temple in the ancient Greek world, located 11 miles south of Miletus in modern Turkey. Home to an oracle…

Termessos Kurucu'nun Evi

The ruins of Termessos Kurucu'nun Evi (Founders House) represent a Roman-type villa complex dating to the 3rd century BC, located on the outskirts of the ancient city of Termessos…

Viran Kapı

The Viran Kapi (Ruined Gate) is the surviving arched entrance to the Asklepion of Pergamon in western Turkey, dating to the Roman imperial period. The gate bore the famous…

Yazılıkkaya

Yazılıkaya (Turkish: Inscribed rock) was a sanctuary of Hattusa, the capital city of the Hittite Empire, today in the Çorum Province, Turkey. Most impressive today are the rock…

Yesemek Open Air Museum

The largest known stonemasonry workshop from the ancient Near East, covering a hillside called Aslanli Tepe (Lions Hill) in Gaziantep Province, Turkey. Established by Hittite…

Yunus Sütunu

Yunus Sütunu (Pillar of Jonah) is an ancient ruin near Sariseki in Hatay Province, Turkey, functioning as a watchtower and toll station guarding the highway connecting Cilicia to…

Çatıören

Çatıören is a Hellenistic archaeological site in Mersin Province, Turkey, featuring a 2nd-century BC temple dedicated to Hermes. The site displays polygonal masonry characteristic…

Çavuştepe

Cavustepe (Sardurihinilli) is an Urartian fortress built by King Sarduri II (r. 764-735 BC) near Gurpinar, 25 km southeast of Van in eastern Turkey. Excavated by Afif Erzen from…

Örenyeri

A major archaeological mound in Corum Province, Turkey, 25 km north of the Hittite capital Hattusa, with fourteen occupation layers spanning from the mid-Chalcolithic (6th…