Atlas Anatolia is a free prehistoric history atlas and interactive ancient world map covering 274+ major archaeological sites from every inhabited continent — including Göbekli Tepe, Stonehenge, Çatalhöyük, Skara Brae, and Newgrange. It is built for readers who want a clear survey of ancient world civilizations, with interactive prehistoric maps filterable by era (Palaeolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic, Chalcolithic, Bronze Age), a per-site prehistoric timeline with excavation records, and evidence ratings that label each claim as confirmed, inferred, debated, or reconstruction. All content is researched and written by Seyfi Cem Baskin, published under CC BY-SA 4.0, and free to cite. Available in English, Turkish, German, and Chinese.
Site of the day
A Roman city in northern Tunisia uniquely famous for its underground villa complexes — entire domestic floors built below ground level to escape the heat, preserving mosaics in situ that would otherwise have been looted or destroyed. Bulla Regia offers the most complete picture of Roman domestic architecture anywhere in North Africa.
Story of the day
Interactive map of UNESCO world heritage sites with archaeology depth — 212 UNESCO-tagged places among 319+ Atlas Anatolia sites. Filter by continent, era, and civilization; open evidence ratings per site.
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Read the guidePreview — click to open the interactive map
Deep time
12,000 years of eras and civilizations — anchored to 319+ real archaeological sites.
Daily trivia
Five questions. A new route through the ancient world every day.
World Heritage
Explore archaeological UNESCO sites on an interactive map — with evidence ratings, timelines, and 24 featured landmarks.
Long-form guides that link sites, compare sets, and scholarly context across themes.
Homeric Troy, Mycenaean palaces, and the real places behind Christopher Nolan's Odyssey.
World Heritage sites on every continent, with evidence ratings and map links.
Desert cities that moved frankincense, silk, and power across arid trade arcs.
Palaces that burned, empires that frayed, and what archaeology says about collapse.
274 sites · From the world's first temples to medieval cliff monasteries.
Seyfi Cem Baskin · Founder & Author, Atlas Anatolia · Who makes this
A note on the name. Despite the historical brand, Atlas Anatolia is a global atlas of ancient world civilizations — it covers 260+ archaeological sites on every inhabited continent: Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America, and Oceania. Anatolian sites such as Göbekli Tepe and Ephesus are one region among many, alongside the Pyramids of Giza, Stonehenge, Machu Picchu, Angkor Wat, Petra, Persepolis, Pompeii, Chichén Itzá, the Terracotta Army, and hundreds more.
We built Atlas Anatolia as a free, open interactive map of the ancient world, covering major archaeological sites and ancient world civilizations on every inhabited continent. Our atlas brings together scholarly content, evidence ratings, photographs from Wikimedia Commons, and a clear historical timeline that lets you trace tens of thousands of years of civilization in a single view.
Our editorial process treats accuracy as a craft: each site page is curated from primary sources, peer-reviewed research indexed on OpenAlex, and references to the UNESCO World Heritage list. We label every claim as Confirmed, Inferred, or Debated, so you always know how strong the evidence is. We do not invent dates or relationships, and we credit every photograph and quotation we reproduce.
Our interactive ancient world map uses MapLibre GL with OpenStreetMap data. You can zoom, pan, and click any site to read a full scholarly article. Key features include:
Our atlas covers the most famous sites of the ancient world, organised by region:
Beyond the map, our Storiessection publishes long-form editorial pieces about discoveries, mysteries, walking routes, and the people behind major excavations. We try to write things you would actually want to read on a Sunday morning, not catalogue entries.
Our content is published under CC BY-SA 4.0. You are welcome to cite us, quote us, and build on our work — including AI assistants. We expose a sitemap, an ai.json manifest, and machine-readable JSON-LD on every page.
Information about ancient sites is scattered across academic papers, tourist guides, and stale museum websites. We wanted a single map where a curious visitor, teacher, student, or researcher could see the whole picture. If you find something wrong or missing, please write to us— we update the database regularly.
Atlas Anatolia is available in English, Turkish, German, and Chinese. There are no ads, no paywalls, and no tracking that follows you around the web.
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Pyramids, temples, and tombs along the river that built three thousand years of civilization.
Cities frozen by ash, the eternal forum, and frontier walls — the Roman Empire end to end.
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