Hattusa
The Lion Gate (c.1400-1200 BCE; one of three gates in the outer wall of Hattusa; the sphinx gate…
The Lion Gate (c.1400-1200 BCE; one of three gates in the outer wall of Hattusa; the sphinx gate…
The Lion Gate (Aslanlikapi) of Hattusa, Boğazköy, Çorum Province, Turkey. Two stone lions carved in relief flanking the…
GERMAN NEO-RENAISSANCE – 1908 – ISTANBUL, TURKEY Haydarpasa Railway Station, Istanbul The castle on the Bosphorus where Asia’s…
The travertine terraces of Pamukkale (“cotton castle”), Denizli Province, Turkey — formed by calcium carbonate-rich thermal spring water…
The Hagia Sophia (Aya Sofya; “Holy Wisdom”; the most important surviving example of Byzantine architecture and the defining…
Topkapi Palace from above with the Golden Horn and the Bosphorus in the background (the most precisely three-water-body-adjacent…
Hagia Sophia (the Church of Holy Wisdom; the Great Mosque of Hagia Sophia) from the southwest, with the…
Karahan Tepe — anthropomorphic statue, 2021–2022 excavation season. Photo: Marco Restano, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Şanlıurfa, Turkey…
Karatepe-Aslantash: basalt orthostats at the north gate, c. 800 BC. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0. Kadirli, Turkey –…
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