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:
Lydia
Lydia: Iron Age kingdom in western Turkey. Its capital was Sardes. In Antiquity, this country was well known for its gold carrying river Pactolus; the wealth of the last Lydian king Croesus, who had been the first to mint gold,…Lydia (satrapy)
Lydia: satrapy in the Achaemenid Empire. Its capital was Sardes. A Lydian. Relief from the East Stairs of the Apadana, Persepolis After…
Persepolis, Apadana, East Stairs, Lydian |
Lydian stater with head of a lion |
Niobe's Rock
Niobe's Rock near Magnesia near the Sipylus: rock in the shape of a weeping woman, which the ancient Greeks believed to be Niobe. …Manisa Museum
Situated in an old madrassa, there's an archaeological collection. We were not able to see the finds from Sardes, but found some Roman sculpture on the court outside.
Map of Alexander's Anatolian Campaign |
Map of NW Asia Minor |
Map of Caria |
Map of Cilicia |
Map of Gordium |
Map of Halicarnassus |