Must See Archaeological Sites in Turkey

Ephesus

Rome aside, this was the most important city of Roman empire and the largest city in the world.

Hierapolis

Hierapolis was originally a Phrygian cult centre of the Anatolian mother goddess of Cybele and later a Greek city.

Assos

Assos was an ancient Greek city near today's Behramkale or Behram for short, which most people still call by its ancient name of Assos.

Catalhoyuk

Çatalhöyük is a tell of a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic proto-city settlement in southern Anatolia, which existed from…

Pergamon

Pergamon or Pergamum, also referred to by its modern Greek form Pergamos, was a rich and powerful ancient Greek city in Aeolis.

Termessos

Termessos was a Pisidian city built at an altitude of more than 1000 metres at the south-west side of the mountain Solymos in the Taurus…

Yoros Castle

Yoros Castle is a ruined castle dating back to Byzantine times that stands above the confluence of the Bosphorus and the Black Sea, to the…

Nimrud Dag

Mount Nemrut or Nemrud is a 2,134-metre-high mountain in southeastern Turkey, notable for the summit where a number of large statues are…

Laodicea on the Lycus

Laodicea on the Lycus was a rich ancient Greek city in Asia Minor, now Turkey, on the river Lycus.

Red Basilica

The "Red Basilica", also called variously the Red Hall and Red Courtyard, is a monumental ruined temple in the ancient city of Pergamon,…

Ancient Miletus

Dara

Dara or Daras was an important East Roman fortress city in northern Mesopotamia on the border with the Sassanid Empire.

Ani

Ani is a ruined medieval Armenian city now situated in Turkey's province of Kars, next to the closed border with Armenia.

Hattusa

Hattusa, also Hattuşa, Ḫattuša, Hattusas, or Hattusha, was the capital of the Hittite Empire in the late Bronze Age during two distinct…

Yesemek Quarry and Sculpture Workshop

Yesemek Quarry and Sculpture Workshop is an open-air museum and archaeological site in Gaziantep Province, Turkey.

Harran

This used to be an important commercial and religious hub since the early Bronze Age.

Carchemish

Carchemish, also spelled Karkemish, was an important ancient capital in the northern part of the region of Syria.

Çayönü

Çayönü Tepesi is a Neolithic settlement in southeastern Turkey which prospered from circa 8,630 to 6,800 BC.

Çayönü Höyük

Khtzkonk Monastery

Khtzkonk Monastery was a monastic ensemble of five Armenian churches built between the seventh and thirteenth centuries in what was then…