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Prehistoric sacred sites in Turkey
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Aşıklı Höyük
Aksaray, Turkey
Aşıklı Höyük is among the world's oldest permanent settlements, a compact mud-brick village where people first chose to root themselves to one place around 8200 BCE....
Boncuklu Höyük
Konya, Turkey
Boncuklu Höyük is the oldest known village on the Konya Plain, predating the famous Çatalhöyük by roughly a thousand years....
Çakmaktepe
Şanlıurfa, Turkey
Çakmaktepe is the oldest known settlement in the Taş Tepeler cluster of Şanlıurfa — predating even Göbekli Tepe by roughly a thousand years....
Çatalhöyük
Konya, Turkey
Çatalhöyük is one of the world's most intensively studied Neolithic settlements — 18 levels of occupation, tightly packed mud-brick houses with roof-entry and the dead...
Çayönü Tepesi
Diyarbakır, Turkey
Çayönü Tepesi, near the headwaters of the Tigris River, is among the most ritually complex Neolithic sites in the world....
Gusir Höyük
Siirt, Turkey
Gusir Höyük is one of southeastern Anatolia's rarest Neolithic sites — a stratified settlement near the Tigris-Botan confluence in Siirt province, occupied from roughly...
Harbetsuvan Tepesi
Şanlıurfa, Turkey
Harbetsuvan Tepesi is a small-scale Pre-Pottery Neolithic B cult centre in the Tek Tek Mountains, 53 km east of Şanlıurfa, excavated 2017–2019....
Hasankeyf Höyük
Batman, Turkey
Hasankeyf Höyük is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic A site on the left bank of the Tigris in Batman province, southeastern Turkey, occupied by hunter-fisher-gatherers in the 10th...
Karahantepe
Şanlıurfa, Turkey
Karahantepe is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic site in southeastern Turkey's Tek Tek Mountains, open to visitors since 2025, whose Pillar Shrine contains 11 T-shaped pillars...
Körtik Tepe
Diyarbakır, Turkey
Körtik Tepe is among the oldest known permanently settled communities on Earth, occupied for fifteen centuries during the Younger Dryas cold period at the confluence of...
Köşk Höyük
Niğde, Turkey
Beneath the volcanic profile of Mount Hasan on the Bor Plateau of Central Anatolia, Köşk Höyük preserves a rare sequence of Neolithic and Chalcolithic life spanning 1,500...
Sayburç
Şanlıurfa, Turkey
Sayburç holds the oldest known narrative artwork in human history: a 3.7-metre stone bench relief depicting a man holding his phallus, flanked by leopards, followed by a...
Sefertepe
Şanlıurfa, Turkey
Sefertepe is the easternmost site of Turkey's Taş Tepeler Neolithic network, and among the most revelatory for understanding how ancient communities managed the transition...
Sumaki Höyük
Batman, Turkey
Sumaki Höyük was a Late Pre-Pottery Neolithic B and Early Pottery Neolithic settlement in the Lower Garzan Valley of Batman Province, occupied from approximately 7300 to...
Yeşilova Höyük
İzmir, Turkey
Yeşilova Höyük is a Neolithic and Chalcolithic tell mound in Bornova, İzmir, occupied from around 6500 to 4000 BC....
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