67 published sites in Türkiye / Anatolia.
45 heritage monuments hidden
World Record
Most-Visited Ancient Site in the World
3000 BCE – 500 CE
Nine settlement layers at Hisarlık in northwestern Türkiye, where Heinrich Schliemann dug for Homer's Troy and archaeologists still debate which level matches a historical war. UNESCO listed the site in 1998; renewed interest from epic film adaptations keeps new visitors comparing poetry with stone.
Continent Record
Oldest Sanctuary in Asia
9600 BCE – 8000 BCE
The world's oldest known monumental sanctuary, predating Stonehenge by roughly 6,000 years. Massive carved T-shaped pillars arranged in circles suggest complex ritual activity among pre-agricultural communities.
1000 BCE – 700 CE
Major Ionian city near modern Selçuk, once home to the Temple of Artemis and later a Roman metropolis of marble streets, terrace houses, and the Library of Celsus. Paul's epistles and pilgrimage routes kept Ephesus famous after the ancient harbour silted away.
800 BCE – 1923 CE
The deepest known underground city in the world, extending 85 meters below the surface with 18 levels. It could shelter approximately 20,000 people along with livestock and food stores.
500 CE – 1400 CE
A medieval Armenian capital on the Turkish-Armenian border, once home to over 100,000 people. Its ruins include magnificent churches, mosques, and fortifications spanning centuries of multicultural history.
Country Record
Oldest Settlement in Türkiye
7400 BCE – 5600 BCE
One of the world's earliest known proto-urban settlements, occupied from roughly 7400 to 5600 BCE. Famous for its densely packed mudbrick houses, wall paintings, and evidence of a remarkably egalitarian Neolithic community.
300 BCE – 1268 CE
One of the four great cities of the ancient world and a cradle of early Christianity. Antioch's extraordinary mosaics rival those of Pompeii, and its layered history spans Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, and Islamic civilizations.
800 BCE – 700 CE
A major Hellenistic capital perched on a dramatic acropolis, renowned for its Great Altar, its library rivaling Alexandria, and the Asclepion healing center.
190 BCE – 1354 CE
A Greco-Roman spa city perched above the famous white travertine terraces of Pamukkale. One of the best-preserved ancient cities in Turkey, with a vast necropolis, theatre, and the Plutonium — a gate to the underworld.
400 BCE – 400 CE
One of the most important healing centers of the ancient world, where the physician Galen practiced, patients slept in sacred dormitories to receive divine dream cures, and a sophisticated system of therapy combined medicine, psychology, and religious ritual.
69 BCE – 34 BCE
A remote mountaintop sanctuary at 2,134 meters elevation, featuring colossal stone heads of gods and King Antiochus I of Commagene. One of the most dramatic archaeological sites in the world.
Oldest City in Türkiye
3000 BCE – 2000 CE
One of the oldest continuously inhabited places on Earth, where Abraham paused on his journey to Canaan, where the last pagan temple of the Moon God survived into the Islamic era, and where distinctive beehive houses dot the Mesopotamian plain.
