The world's oldest known monumental temple, built around 9600 BC by hunter-gatherers, thousands of years before Stonehenge, with huge T-shaped stone pillars carved with animals, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. A roof protects the excavations.
It's near Şanlıurfa, the city of Abraham, with its sacred fish pools and an excellent archaeology museum.
A mountain top at 2,134 m where King Antiochus of Commagene built a tomb mound in the 1st century BC, with huge stone heads of gods and kings now sca…
An underground city carved into the soft rock up to 85 m deep, with stables, wineries, chapels and ventilation shafts, which could shelter thousands …
A Greek Orthodox monastery clinging to a cliff face 1,200 m up in a forested valley near Trabzon, founded in the 4th century, with frescoes in the ro…
A landscape of rock pinnacles ('fairy chimneys'), valleys and cave dwellings in central Turkey, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The ruined medieval Armenian capital on the closed border with Armenia, once a city of 100,000 people, with the remains of churches, a cathedral and …
The tomb of the Sufi poet Rumi (Mevlana), under a green-tiled dome, now a museum and a pilgrimage site.
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