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:
The End of Lydia: 547?
One of the most important texts for the study of the chronology of the sixth century BCE is the Nabonidus Chronicle, which seems to prove that the Persian king Cyrus the Great captured the Lydian capital Sardes in 547. This…
The Euphrates at Birecik |
The Phrygian plain, somewhere west of Sivrihisar (Turkey) |
Evening at the Phrygian plain |
Thessaloniki, Sherd with a Carian inscription |
Tigris
Tigris (Greek Τίγρις): one of the main rivers in Mesopotamia. The bridge at Diyarbakir Our word Tigris comes from an Old Persian word…
The Tigris at Hasankeyf |
Tlos
Tlos (Greek Τλῶς): town in Lycia, modern Döğer in the valley of the Xanthos river. Acropolis (with Ottoman fort) The site of…
Tlos, Acropolis and tombs (with Ottoman fort) |
Tlos, House tombs |
Tlos, Rock tombs |
Troy: excavation
Ilion or Troy: town in northwestern Asia Minor, famous for the legendary Trojan War, in which a coalition of Mycenaean warriors captured the city of king Priam. Homer's Iliad deals with an episode from this war. …