🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Gusir Höyük
Pre-Pottery Neolithic A–B to Pottery Neolithic (9300–5500 BCE) · Upper Tigris PPN (Northern Fertile Crescent)
PPNA–PPNB lakeside village at Tigris–Botan confluence documenting crop domestication pathway.
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Küllüoba Höyük South Extension
Early Bronze Age (3200–1950 BCE) · West Anatolian Early Bronze → Hittite scatter
Küllüoba Höyük South Extension exposes the EBA II–III domestic quarter 80 m south of the central burnt compound (Level II).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Elaiussa Sebaste
Hellenistic to Byzantine (c.200 BCE–700 CE) · Cappadocian royal → Roman client kingdom
Augustan island-promontory city at Ayaş with hillside theatre, harbour islet and Achilles agora mosaics.
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Norsun Tepe Keban Dam Rescue Trench
Early Bronze to Iron (3200 BCE–800 BCE) · EBA → MBA → Hittite → Iron Age (Urartian–Phrygian periphery)
Norsun Tepe Keban Dam Rescue Trench is the southern salvage sector of Norsun Tepe on the southern Altınova plain — one of Hauptmann's Keban rescue tells with an Hittite palace (1600–1350 BCE) burnt…
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İmikuşağı Höyüğü
EB I–III → MBA → Late Bronze Hittite (3200–1200 BCE) with Iron Age coda · Kura-Araxes → Eastern Anatolian EBA → Hittite-Kizzuwatna fringe
EB–MBA–Hittite tell (Kebanon) — Kura-Araxes to Hittite fortress, Esin Keban salvage key sequence.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Harran — City of Sin, Sabians and Beehive Houses
Early Bronze to Medieval Islamic (c.2500 BCE–1271 CE Mongol sack; peak Old Assyrian karum and Sasanian–Umayyad) · Semitic Harranian → Assyrian → Babylonian (Nabonidus) → Parthian/Roman → Arab Sabian–Islamic
Moon-god Ehulhul city of Carrhae — Nabonidus terrace, Crassus battle plain and beehive-house university.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Hüseyindede Tepe
Old Hittite (1700–1500 BCE) · Hattian–Hittite
Old Hittite hill shrine with bull-leaping relief vases linking Anatolia to Aegean iconography.
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Kinet Höyük North Harbour
MBA to Hellenistic (2000 BCE–100 BCE) · MBA Levantine → Hittite → Neo-Assyrian → Hellenistic Issos
Kinet Höyük North Harbour is the 15-ha northern basin of Kinet Höyük — identified with Issos, where Alexander beat Darius III (333 BCE).
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Sultantepe
Middle Bronze to Neo-Assyrian · Hurrian → Mitanni → Assyrian
Neo-Assyrian library mound Huzirina with 600 tablets outside the gate – scholarly twin to Nineveh.
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Grike Havuz Ritual Platform
Pre-Pottery Neolithic to Bronze (9500 BCE–2000 BCE) · PPN → Chalcolithic → EBA
Grike Havuz Ritual Platform is the limestone-framed T-pillar pool edge at the karstic Havuz depression in the Karababa basin northeast of Şanlıurfa.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Beycesultan Höyük
Late Chalcolithic to Middle Bronze to Byzantine · Western Anatolian (Troy I prelude → Hittite Luwian)
Multi-period mega-tell (c.4000 BCE Late Chalcolithic to 1200 BCE Byzantine, peak EBA–MBA) dominating Çivril Plain on Meander headwaters, excavated 1954–59 by Seton Lloyd & James Mellaart then 2007–…
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Harran Plain Tell A
Halaf to Islamic (5600 BCE–1500 CE) · Halaf → Ubaid → Uruk → EBA Syrian → Hittite → Islamic Harran
Harran Plain Tell A is a 2.8-ha Halaf–Ubaid mound 8 km northeast of Harran city on the Balikh floodplain — one of Wilkinson's mapped Harran plain tells tracking the shift from dispersed Halaf…
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Kilise Tepe
Late Chalcolithic through Byzantine; Hittite peak · Cilician Plain → Hittite Kizzuwatna frontier → Rough Cilicia Luwian
Göksu terrace tell with Chalcolithic–Byzantine sequence — Hittite pithos warehouses (Ura?), Luwian seals and buried industrial zone on plateau road.
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Samsat Höyük Submerged Citadel Approach
Bronze Age to Commagene Kingdom (3000 BCE–72 CE) · Bronze Age Kummuh → Hittite → Neo-Hittite Kummuh → Commagene (Mithridatic)
Samsat Höyük Submerged Citadel Approach is the drowned approach ramp and lower town of Samosata — capital of Hittite Kummuh and later Commagene Kingdom under Antiochus I.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Sarissa (Kuşaklı Höyük)
Hittite Old to Empire · Hittite (upper Kızılırmak frontier)
Highest Hittite frontier city (c.1600–1200 BCE) on 1650 m steppe ridge, holy city of Weather God, planned on grid with dam. Andreas Müller-Karpe (Marburg) excavations (1995–2004) revealed 2.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Sayburç
Pre-Pottery Neolithic A–B · Taş Tepeler / Upper Mesopotamian PPN
Taş Tepeler PPN sanctuary with narrative leopard-human-phallus reliefs matching Karahan Tepe phallic imagery.
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Oylum Höyük Lower Town
Chalcolithic to Medieval (4000 BCE–1400 CE) · North Syrian → Hittite → Neo-Assyrian → Islamic
Oylum Höyük Lower Town is the 30-ha extra-mural city wrapping the 20-m citadel on the Kilis plain.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Erbaba Höyük
Late Neolithic (Hacilar I equivalent) · Beyşehir-Hacilar transition
Late Neolithic lakeside tell (c.6400–6000 BCE, with Chalcolithic reuse c.5500 BCE) on Beyşehir Lake terrace, excavated 1969–71 by Bordaz & Alpes team and later re-studied by Steadman/Arbuckle.
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Oylum Höyük
Late Chalcolithic through Medieval; EBA III, MBA II, Hittite, Neo-Hittite, Assyrian · Syro-Anatolian; EBA Islahiye cluster → Hittite sphere → Neo-Hittite/Assyrian
37-m high Kilis plain tell (460×370 m) with EBA–Hittite–Neo-Hittite town and 30 ha buried lower town — frontier type-site.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Submerged site
Sinope (Sinop) – Milesian Harbour Mills of the Black Sea
Archaic Greek to Ottoman (630 BCE – 1922 CE) · Milesian Greek / Paphlagonian / Mithridatic
630 BCE Milesian double harbour on isthmus — north 160 m and south 240 m moles subsided –1 to –4 m on both harbour sides.
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Mezraa-Teleilat Pre-Pottery Levels
Pre-Pottery Neolithic to Early Bronze (10500–3000 BCE) · PPNA–PPNB → Halaf → Ubaid → Uruk
Mezraa-Teleilat Pre-Pottery Levels are the basal 6 m beneath the Halaf–Ubaid mound on the Euphrates left bank 5 km south of Birecik.
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Gedikli Karahöyük
Early Bronze Age I–III through Middle Bronze Age (c.3000–1500 BCE) · Islahiye EBA (Amanus) with Early Transcaucasian influence → Hittite
Amanus cemetery-tell with 200+ EBA pithos burials and EBA–MBA houses — Islahiye plain mortuary type-site.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Kuruçay Höyük
Late Neolithic to Chalcolithic to Early Bronze · Hacilar-Kuruçay-Beycesultan sequence
Neolithic to Early Bronze lakeside tell with 13 levels (c.6200–3800 BCE, + EBA), bridging Hacilar (Level 6 early pottery) to Chalcolithic fortified town.
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Giricano Tepe South Lower Town
Early Bronze to Middle Bronze (3000–1550 BCE) · Ninevite V → Hurrian → Old Babylonian → Mittani
Giricano Tepe South Lower Town is the 4.2-ha south terrace below the main Early Bronze mound on the upper Tigris west of Ziyaret Tepe.