History and archaeology / Mound (höyük)
Tilmen Höyük
İslahiye, Gaziantep
A mound surrounded by branches of the Karasu, whose Middle Bronze Age palace and walls have been repaired and laid out like an open-air archaeological park.
Its story
Tilmen Höyük, 10 km east of İslahiye, is 225 meters in diameter and 21 meters high; it is one of the largest of the more than fifty mounds on the Sakçagözü Plain. Settlement extends from the Late Chalcolithic to the Iron Age; its heyday was the 19th–15th centuries BC, when it was subject to the Aleppo-based Kingdom of Yamhad. The inner and outer walls built of large stones without mortar, two basalt lions beside the monumental gate on the east and a monumental building resembling the palace of Alalakh stand out. Excavations began in 1959 with Bahadır Alkım; through work continued under Refik Duru and Nicolò Marchetti, the remains have been repaired and made visitable.
Key facts
- Period
- 4th millennium BC – Iron Age
- Admission
- Free
- Getting there
- ~10 km east of İslahiye
- Visit duration
- 45 minutes
Trip purpose
- Free
- Photography
- Quiet
Location
37.03029, 36.70385
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Source: Web derlemesi (doğrulanmalı): https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilmen_Höyük | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilmen_Hoyuk | https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/231331200