When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Göbekli Tepe - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Göbekli_Tepe

    The site was first used at the dawn of the southwest Asian Neolithic period, which marked the appearance of the oldest permanent human settlements anywhere in the world. Prehistorians link this Neolithic Revolution to the advent of agriculture, but disagree on whether farming caused people to settle down or vice versa.

  3. Çatalhöyük - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Çatalhöyük

    The eastern settlement forms a mound that would have risen about 20 m (66 ft) above the plain at the time of the latest Neolithic occupation. There is also a smaller settlement mound to the west and a Byzantine settlement a few hundred meters to the east. The prehistoric mound settlements were abandoned before the Bronze Age.

  4. List of ancient settlements in Turkey - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ancient...

    List of settlements. In the table below, only the settlements which have articles in this encyclopaedia are shown, with the exception of the following: A few ancient settlements are still in use (Adana, Amasya, Ankara, Istanbul, Tarsus etc.) These settlements are not included in the list unless separate articles for the ancient sites exist.

  5. Boncuklu Höyük - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boncuklu_Höyük

    Boncuklu Höyük is a Neolithic archaeological site in Central Anatolia, Turkey, situated around 9 km from the more famous Çatalhöyük site. The tell is made up of the remains of one of the world's oldest villages, occupied between around 8300 to 7800 BCE. [1] [2] The buildings are small and oval shaped with walls constructed of mudbricks ...

  6. Karahan Tepe - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karahan_Tepe

    Karahan Tepe. The ancient structures at Karahan Tepe were discovered in 1997 by "researchers near the Kargalı neighborhood in the Tek Tek Mountains National Park." [8]Necmi Karul, an archeologist at Istanbul University, told Anadolu Agency in 2019, “Last year, excavation work restarted in Karahan tepe [Kectepe] – around 60 km from where Göbekli tepe is located – and we encountered ...

  7. Boncuklu Tarla - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boncuklu_Tarla

    Boncuklu Tarla was discovered in the district of Dargeçit in Mardin Province in 2008. [4] [5] The discovery was made during a prospecting dig near Ilisu dam. [4]The site underwent its first excavation in 2012 under the auspices of the Mardin Museum which was followed by a second excavation by Dr. Ergül Kodaş of the University of Mardin Artuklu in 2017 [4] [2] The temple found at Boncuklu ...

  8. List of World Heritage Sites in Turkey - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_Heritage...

    The first three sites in Turkey, Great Mosque and Hospital of Divriği, Historic Areas of Istanbul and Göreme National Park and the Rock Sites of Cappadocia, were inscribed on the list at the 9th Session of the World Heritage Committee, held in Paris, France, in 1985. [3]

  9. Derinkuyu underground city - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derinkuyu_underground_city

    Derinkuyu (Turkish pronunciation: [derˈinkuju]) [a] [b] also known as Elengubu, is an ancient multi-level underground city near the modern town of Derinkuyu in Nevşehir Province, Turkey, extending to a depth of approximately 85 metres (280 ft). It is large enough to have sheltered as many as 20,000 people together with their livestock and ...