Bedeller (Örentepe) Höyük

Gerger Castle Samos II

Ambar (Gre Filla)

Karayün Höyük

Menekşe Çatağı Höyük

Isildak Tepe

Parion Parium Stone Tower II

Ferhatlı Uzunoglantepe Relief

Saint Bartholomew Monastery

Aphrodisias Basilica

Baiberdon

Myus

Cormi Kormi

Karabucak Mausoleum

Idebessos

Sidyma

Port Of Side

Phokaia

Theangela

Bargilia Roman Temple

Kentli Çiftligi

Labraunda Andron A Idrieus' Andron

Termera

Panionion

Magnesia ad Maeandrum

Metropolis

Aspendos

Tyana

Assos

Bergoule

Taşköprü Inscriptions

Taşköprü Inscriptions are ancient rock inscriptions located north of Taşköprü village in Ardahan Province, Turkey. The inscriptions date back to the 1st millennium BC and belong to Sarduri II, who was a King of Urartu between 764-735 BC.

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Taşköprü Inscriptions

Müslümantepe

Ancient Settlement in Diyarbakır Province, Turkey Müslümantepe was used continuously from the Chalcolithic through the Roman Period and it is believed that with further investigations the site will have an important role for the studies of Neo-Assyria

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Müslümantepe

Kortik Tepe

Ancient Village or Settlement in Diyarbakır Province, Turkey. A pre-ceramic neolithic settlement discovered in 1991.

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Kortik Tepe

Sarmizegethusa

Doğu Romanya'nın Geç Demir Çağı kasabası, MÖ 1. yüzyılda Burebista tarafından kurulan Daçya devletinin merkezi. Bir tepenin üstündeki kale, birkaç tapınak ve tapınağın bulunduğu bir kutsal alanın yanındadır.

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Zinjirli

A tell site in southeast Turkey excavated by the Germans in the late 19th century. It was important during the 2nd millennium bc under the Hittites and subsequently as an independent city state called Sam’al. It was annexed by the Assyrians in the 7th century BC and then abandoned. The town was s...

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Zinjirli

Zhob

A valley in northern Baluchistan, Pakistan, with a number of sites of the 4th and 3rd millennia bc, of which the best known are Periano Ghundai and Moghul Ghundai. The so-called ‘Zhob cult’ phase of the 3rd millennium bc is characterized by goggle-eyed hooded female figurines of a type labelled ‘...

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Zenebi Falls

A site on the Gaya River, north of the Jos Plateau, Nigeria, where outwash gravels contain a prepared core industry of ‘Middle Stone Age’ type. A radiocarbon date in the 4th millennium be for wood from the same deposit is probably not an accurate indicator of the age of the stone industry.

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Zenebi Falls

Zawi Chemi Shanidar

A site of the Karim Shahir culture near the Zab River in northern Iraq, 6 km from the Shanidar cave. This openair site provides important evidence of early stock control, associated with a radiocarbon date of c8640 be. High proportions of immature sheep, especially in the upper levels, were origi...

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Yaxchillan

A Classic Maya centre located on the Usumacinta River in Chiapas, Mexico. Though there are a number of structures including palaces with ornamented stucco roof-combs and mansard roofing (see Talenque), temple-PYRAMiDS and two ball courts, the site is best known for its more than 125 carved lintel...

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Yaxchillan

Yarim Tepe 1

A tell site near the Caspian Sea in northern Iran. The earliest levels have a Neolithic settlement of the Turkmenian Djei-tun culture. Subsequently the site was abandoned and reoccupied in the later 4th millennium bc. It was abandoned again, possibly after a destruction, in the early 2nd millenni...

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Yanik Tepe

A tell site near Tabriz in the province of Azerbaijan in northwest Iran. It is one of the earliest permanent settlement sites in the area, dated to the mid-6th millennium be. Nine phases of occupation of this early period were recognized, characterized by rectangular mud-brick houses with plaster...

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Yahya

Tell site in the province of Kerman in southeast Iran. It was occupied from the 5th millennium bc to the 3rd, with some later occupation up to the Sassanian period. In the late 4th and early 3rd millennium bc it was an important trading centre. The main commodity traded was locally quarried steat...

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Yahya

Wun Rok

A large Iron Age settlement mound north of Wau in the Bahr el Ghazal Province, in the Southern Region of the Sudan. Throughout the occupation, which began around the middle of the 1st millennium ad, pottery was decorated by means of a twisted cord roulette. A similar technique of pottery decorati...

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