About Atlas Anatolia
Atlas Anatolia is an interactive map and discovery platform for major archaeological sites of the ancient world. The project aims to make the extraordinary depth of human history accessible, engaging, and trustworthy.
Unlike typical tourist guides or academic databases, Atlas Anatolia is designed as a story-first, map-first experience — part interactive atlas, part documentary companion, part museum-quality story map. Despite its name, the atlas is entirely global: it covers archaeological heritage on every inhabited continent, not just Anatolia or Turkey.
What you will find
Atlas Anatolia currently maps more than 220 major archaeological sites across every inhabited continent — from Göbekli Tepe and Çatalhöyük in Anatolia to the Pyramids of Giza, the Parthenon, Pompeii, Petra, Persepolis, Angkor Wat, Borobudur, the Terracotta Army, Machu Picchu, Chichén Itzá, Teotihuacán, Stonehenge, and Great Zimbabwe.
Each site page brings together a scholarly overview, a chronological excavation timeline, key facts, evidence items rated as confirmed, inferred, or debated, high-resolution photographs from Wikimedia Commons, related sites, and a curated list of academic sources. A timeline slider and continent, era, and civilization filters let you move through tens of thousands of years of human history on a single interactive map.
Open data and languages
The atlas is free, has no ads, no paywalls, and no cross-site tracking. All editorial content is published under a Creative Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 licence, so you are welcome to cite, quote, and build on it — including with AI assistants such as Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity. We publish an XML sitemap, an ai.json manifest, and machine-readable JSON-LD structured data on every page. The entire experience is available in English, Turkish, and German, and we update the database regularly as new research is published and new sites are added.
Our Principles
- 1Evidence over speculation. We clearly distinguish confirmed facts from scholarly inferences and debated interpretations. When something is uncertain, we say so.
- 2Accessible but rigorous. Content is written in plain language but grounded in reputable sources. We don't sacrifice accuracy for drama.
- 3Respectful of heritage. These sites represent the cultural patrimony of many peoples. We present them with care and appropriate context.
Sources
Content is drawn from peer-reviewed publications, authoritative books, UNESCO documentation, and reputable institutional sources. Each site page includes its specific references.
Contributing
Atlas Anatolia is a growing project. If you are a researcher, archaeologist, or historian who would like to contribute corrections or content, please reach out at info@atlasanatolia.com.