The temple columns and architrave pieces are still in Berlin. The fact that the city’s most important temple is the Temple of Athena, as it is in Izmir, Milet, Eriythrai, Foca and Assos as well, reflects the religious tradition of Western Anatolia. Eumenes II had a two-storey covered walkway built along the length of the […]
The Acropolis was built on an extremely steep hill, approached by a winding road ascending some 300m. In this uniquely designed city, religious, official, social and commercial buildings are all found side-by-side. The King of Pergamum is on the top of this hill, which has been inhabited since ancient times. There are also five cisterns […]
The modern day name, comes directly from its ancient name, Pergamum. Known for centuries for its monuments, it was a great city and served as the centre ofPergamum kingdom. Its location made it strategic in the Middle Ages and was the centre of the Karesiogullari Principality before it finally became a part of the Ottoman […]
Located 100 km from north of Izmir in the Bakirgay river basin, Bergama is one of the Turkey’s oldest civilized settlements which, has been inhabited from pre-historic times through the Ionic, Roman and Byzantine civilizations. It has yielded archeological treasures of which importance is recognized world-wide. To the southwest of Bergama, Asclepion, an important health […]
There were major changes in Anatolia in the wake of the Aegean migrations, which took place at the end of he second millennium. This event brought- about the fall of the Hittite Empire and the first half of the 1st millennium B.C., late Hittites, Urartians and Phrygians, who had established kingdoms in different areas of […]
The Bronze period begins around 3000 in Anatolia, around 2500 in the Aegean and Crete, around 2000 in Europe. Bronze is obtained by mixing copper and tin (% 90 copper, % 10 tin). In this period apart from bronze tools other kinds such as copper, gold and electron, which is an alloy of natural gold […]
In this period, in addition to stone tools copper pieces also come into sight. The need to change valuable goods (ceramics, textile) for both raw and shaped mines helped the trade develop, and this brought the exchange between peoples and the preparation of inventory listings with the beginning of communication. Symbols, hieroglyphs, writing with pictures, […]
This period reveals a new step in the history of mankind with the development of the established and settled societies and production of food. Anatolia once again gives the most comprehensive sites in the world for this age with Cayonu. Hacilar, C/atalhoyuk and Kbs, khbyuk excavation sites.
The C/aybnii settlement which is not far from the […]
This period gives way to the most impressive development of the human kind New Stone Age. Middle Stone Age is a period of transition of the human from Old Stone Age to New Stone Age. Hunting and the collecting of plants continued to be the main supply of food, but the human began to store […]
Paleolithic Age, also known to be the old stone age, begins somewhere between 2 million years ago and ends 10.000 years before ourtime. This time period marks the beginning of the existence of the ancestors of man. The early man in the Paleolithic age did not know to farm and raise crops but lived on […]
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