Science: Archaeology: Regional: Middle East: Turkey

Aims to create, maintain and make available to the international community a complete inventory of all archeological sites within Turkey. English and Turkish.

Craig Koester's virtual tour of places of the era and culture in which Revelation was written: Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Sardis, Patmos, Laocidea, Philadelphia and Thyatira.

A complete list of sites by area from tour guide Resat Suthan, with bibliography and background information.

A lesson on the archaeology of Western Anatolia and the Eastern Aegean in the Early Bronze Age.

Explore life in pre-Roman Phrygia, includes articles, maps, photo gallery, chronology, and discussion board.

Description of Learning Sites virtual re-creation of the Hellenistic Sanctuary of Nemrud Dagi, Turkey.

University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology is using new archaeological techniques and a holistic approach to explore Sinop from mountaintop to ocean bottom. Includes: reports, journals, and links.

The TAY Project is designed to build a chronological inventory of the cultural heritage of Turkey. Includes: news, database, survey, and links. (In Turkish and English)

University of Melbourne: Illustrated introduction and reports on sites and current projects.

Illustrated descriptions of excavations at the rich prehistoric and later sites of Bakla Tepe, Liman Tepe and Panaztepe. Includes location map and bibliography.

From Xinhua, new excavations at Turkey's western ancient site of Troy will start on 15 July 2002, reported the Anatolian News Agency on Saturday.

A book proposal by Michael Greenhalgh of the Australian National University, with selected chapters on-line.

An article by Z. Kenan Bilici. One of the most remarkable examples of the Anatolian Medieval Islamic metal works is the bronze cast door-knockers from the Cizre2-Great Mosque, that are in the form of a dragon.

Discover the ancient civilizations and sites of Anatolia. Includes: maps, bibliogrphy, images, and articles.

Excavations by the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago in this valley which has been densely occupied since at least 6000 B.C.E. to the present day.

Culture Without Context 7. Article on the archaeological looting crisis in Turkey and its relationship to modernization.