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:
Yassihüyük, Museum of Gordion
Opposite the so-called Tomb of Midas is the museum of Gordium, which documents the history of the ancient city from the earliest days until the Byzantine age. There are…Yazılıkaya
Yazılıkaya: ancient Hittite sanctuary near Hattusa, famous for its rock reliefs.Sanctuary Because Yazılıkaya is close to the Hittite capital Hattusa, it may have been an important state sanctuary. It consists of two galleries of rock reliefs. The "large gallery" (the northern one,…Yazılıkaya (Midas City)
Yazılıkaya: village in Central Turkey, well-know for its Phrygian archaeological remains. It is also called "Midas City". The so-called Midas Monument The…
Yazılıkaya, Chamber A, Central Relief |
Yazılıkaya, Chamber A, general view |
Yazılıkaya, Chamber B, Gods of the Underworld |
Yazılıkaya, Chamber B, Tudhaliya IV |
Yerevan, Urartian idol |
Yerevan, Urartian Mortar and Pestle |
Yerevan, Urartian Pottery |
Zela
Zela: town in Pontus/Cappadocia, famous for a battle in 47 BCE, in which Julius Caesar defeated Pharnaces of Pontus (modern Zile in Turkey).Zela is an old city. In the nineteenth century BCE, Assyrian merchants who were trading with Anatolia, recorded…Ziaelas of Bithynia
Ziaelas: king of of Bithynia (r. 254-228 BCE).When Nicomedes I of Bithynia died in 255 BCE, he left sons from two marriages: from Ditizele, a lady from Hellespontine Phrygia, he had sons named Ziaelas and Prusias, and several other children…