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1. Burdur @ Travel Turkey Burdur is a province of Turkey, located in the southwest and bordering Muğla and Antalya to the South, Denizli to the West, Afyon to the North, and Isparta to the East. Burdur is located in the "Lakes Region" of Turkey and has many lakes of var...
2. Hattusa @ Travel Turkey Religious and political capital of the Hittite Kingdom for almost 500 years, the ancient site of Hattusa constitutes one of the most important archaeological sites in Turkey. Hattusa (near modern Boğazkale (formerly Boğazköy), Turkey)...
3. Olympos @ Travel Turkey Olympos is a valley at the south coast of Turkey, 90 km southwest of Antalya city near the Town of Kemer.
4. Troy @ Travel Turkey Today it is the name of an archaeological site, the traditional location of Homeric Troy, Turkish Truva, in Hisarlık in Anatolia, close to the seacoast in what is now Çanakkale province in northwest Turkey, southwest of the Dardanelles unde...
5. Claros @ Travel Turkey Claros is a prophecy center of Colophon, one of the twelve Ionic cities. Claros is built between two cities; it is 13 kilometers south of Colophon and two kilometers north of Notion. The Temple of Apollo here was a very important center of prophecy a...
6. Meryemana @ Travel Turkey The House of the Virgin Mary (Turkish: Meryemana or Meryem Ana Evi, "Mother Mary's House") is a Christian and Muslim shrine located on Mt. Koressos (Turkish: Bülbüldağı "Mount Nightingale") in the vicinity of Ephesus, in modern-da...
7. Phaselis @ Travel Turkey Phaselis is an ancient Lycian city in the province of Antalya in Turkey. It is located between the Bey Mountains and the forests of Olympos National Park, 16 km west of the touristic town of Kemer and on the 57th kilometre of the Antalya-Kumluca high...
8. Bergama @ Travel Turkey Bergama (Pargauma:People of High City) refers to a city and its surrounding district in İzmir Province, in the Aegean Region of the Republic of Turkey. Known for its cotton, gold, and fine carpets, the city was in ancient times the Ancient Greec...
9. Nysa @ Travel Turkey Nysa was an ancient Greek city of Anatolia, whose remnants are now in the Sultanhisar district of Aydın Province of Turkey 50 km east of the Ionian city of Ephesus. The geographer and historian Strabo, born in Amasiya started his life of study i...
10. Hadrian resurfaces in Turkey, with a head for history No run-of-the-mill row of marble heads, the British Museum opens a new exhibition that reveals the colossal statue head of Emperor Hadrian found in Turkey last year - and a lesson on today's modern crisis as old as two millennia. Historians and art c...
11. New stage in Trojan excavations A German archaeologist in charge of excavations in ancient Troy announced that a new dimension will be added to the excavations with the finds of the past 20 years being gathered together for the first time. Member of the teaching staff at Tübin...
12. Hierapolis inspires Italian explorer Half a century of excavation work by Italian archaeologists in the ancient city of Hierapolis has been recorded by famous Italian documentary filmmaker, author and explorer Folco Quilici. The documentary was promoted in a press conference Wednesday w...
13. Allianoi @ Travel Turkey Allianoi is an ancient spa settlement (dating predominantly from the Roman Empire period, 2nd century A.D.) situated near Bergama (ancient Pergamon) in Turkey's İzmir Province. The site is located 18 kilometers to the northeast of Bergama, on th...
14. Side @ Travel Turkey Side is one of the best-known classical sites in Turkey, and was an ancient harbour whose name meant pomegranate. Side is a resort town on the southern coast of Turkey, near the villages of Manavgat and Selimiye, 75 km from Antalya) in the province o...
15. Çatalhöyük @ Travel Turkey Çatalhöyük also Çatal Höyük and Çatal Hüyük, or any of the three without diacritics; çatal is Turkish for "fork", hüyük for "mound") was a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic settlement in...
16. Ephesus @ Travel Turkey Ephesus (Hittite: Apasa. Turkish: Efes) was an Ionian city in ancient Anatolia. The city was located in Ionia, where the Cayster River (Küçük Menderes) flows into the Aegean Sea. It was part of the Panionian League.
17. Turkey's Emperor Hadrian bust on display at British Museum The ancient city of Sagalassos in southwestern Turkey has drawn increasing attention of the whole world after new findings in the archaeological excavations
18. Oldest wheat found in Çatalhöyük A series of DNA analyses conducted on ancient wheat samples have led scientists to conclude that the oldest known wheat was grown in Çatalhöyük, a Neolithic settlement in southern Anatolia. Professor Mahinur Akkaya from the Middle Eas...
19. Foreign archaeologists fond of Turkish culture Foreign archaeologists who have been working in excavations for long years in various parts of Turkey say that they feel like a Turk. Some of them have a settled life in Turkey with their family and adopt Turkish traditions and culture. Their childre...
20. Turkey's archaeological assets go online A project that aims to create a complete list of all Turkey's archaeological treasures has been recently completed and the information has been published on the Internet for the use of researchers.