Anatolia
This category deals with an area that is more or less identical to modern Turkey, prior to, say, Alexander the Great.
There are 566 items in Anatolia:
Indo-Europeans
Indo-Europeans: general name for the people speaking an Indo-European language. They are (linguistic) descendants of the people of the Yamnaya culture (c.3600-2300 BCE) in Ukraine and southern Russia, and settled in the area from Western Europe to India in various migrations in…Inscription XV
Tušpa: name of an ancient Urartian fortress on the eastern shore of Lake Thospitis, not far from the modern city of Van. One of the Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions can be found on the southern face of the citadel of Tušpa.In ca.521, the Persian…Istanbul, Arkeoloji Müzesi
What did I expect when I decided to visit the Istanbul Archaeological Museum? I only had some vague notions about the collection, but nothing more. I knew that the famous Alexander sarcophagus and a well-known portrait of Diocletian were there;…
Ivriz, Relief of king Warpalas and the god Tarhunza |
Izmir, Archaeological Museum
Lovely, quiet museum with a large collection of finds from Smyrna and other Ionian cities, mostly from the Roman age. There's also a numismatic department with, of course, ancient coins, and jewelry. …Julius Polemon II
Julius Polemon II: king in Pontus and Cilicia (r.38 - after 68 CE).Polemon's mother was a lady named Tryphaena, who was a daughter of Polemon I and Pythodoris; the father of Polemon II was the Thracian king Cotys, which means that the last…
Kallipolis, Relief of Cybele |
Kaneš (Kültepe)
Kaneš or Neša: central town in the Middle Bronze trade network of Anatolia, with several palaces and an Assyrian trading post (modern Kültepe, twenty kilometers northeast of modern Kayseri).Early History …
Kaneš, Remains of the "karum" |
Kanesh, Account of a caravan |
Kanesh, Axe mould |
Kanesh, Bathtub |