Explore Ancient Anatolia

The Etruscan civilization is the name given today to the culture and way of life of people of ancient Italy whom ancient Romans called Etrusci or Tusci. The ancient Greeks' word for them was Tyrrhenoi, or Tyrrsenoi. The Etruscans themselves used the term Rasenna, which was syncopated to Rasna or Raśna.

Faces of head sculptures on a marble Roman tomb of ancient Dardanelles at Canakkale Museum of Archaeology, Turkey.

Titus Vespasianus Tunnel of Seleuceia ad Pierea, at Antioch’s ancient port near Samandag, to the southwest of Antakya, is a man-made canyon and canal built digging the rock during the 1st century A.D. to divert the river and prevent silting the harbor.

Ancient Roman doors to afterlife at Kütahya Museum of Archaeology, Turkey.

Phrygian votive Stelae at Kütahya Museum of Archaeology, from the village of Kurudere, near Afyon, Emirdag; and village of Pinarcik (Abia) in Kütahya, Altintas.

The double tetrapylon, monumental gate at Aphrodisias. A tetrapylon (Greek: "four gates") is an ancient type of Roman monument of cubic shape, with a gate on each of the four sides, generally built on a crossroads. Sebasteion: Ancient Aphrodisias School of Sculpture ...

Relief at Sebasteion: Ancient Aphrodisias School of Sculpture ... The emperor is a naked warrior and is crowned by a personification of the Roman People wearing a toga, the stately civilian dress of Roman citizens. The crown is an oak wreath, the corona civica or civic crown awarded for saving citizens' lives. The emperor is setting up a battlefield trophy beneath which kneels an anguished barbarian woman captive. - Museum of Aphrodisias.

The ancient city of Aphrodisias is one of the most important archaeological sites of the late Hellenistic and Roman period in Turkey. Aphrodisias was named after Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love, who had here her unique cult image, the Aphrodite of Aphrodisias, the city's patron goddess. Famous for its its marble sculptors, Aphrodisias enjoyed a long and prosperous existence from the first century BC to the sixth century AD. Today, many of the city's ancient monuments remain standing, and excavations have unearthed an unusual number of marble statues and inscriptions, as well as buildings and other artifacts.

Relief at Sebasteion: Ancient Aphrodisias School of Sculpture ... Agrippina crowns her young son Nero with a laurel wreath. She carries a cornucopia, symbol of Fortune and Plenty, and he wears the armour cloak of a Roman commander, with helmet on the ground at his feet. The scene refers to Nero's accession as emperor in AD 54, and belongs before AD 59 when Nero had Agrippina murdered. - Museum of Aphrodisias, Turkey.

The history of creating glass can be traced back to 3500 BCE in Mesopotamia. Roman glass objects have been recovered across the Roman Empire in domestic, industrial and funerary contexts.

Drawing ancient roman figures in Antalya Museum.

3rd Century Roman sarcophagus of Sidamara at Archaeology Museum of Konya.

In the land that is now Turkey, a wide marble road slopes down to one of the largest libraries of the ancient world. Between 12,000 and 15,000 scrolls were housed in the grand Library of Celsus in the Roman city, Ephesus.