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<< Our Photo Pages >> Beycesultan - Ancient Village or Settlement in Turkey

Submitted by davidmorgan on Sunday, 03 December 2006  Page Views: 12289

Multi-periodSite Name: Beycesultan Alternative Name: Beycesultan Höyük
Country: Turkey Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Civril
Latitude: 38.256667N  Longitude: 29.701111E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
2 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
4 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Beycesultan
Beycesultan submitted by davidmorgan : The mound of Beycesultan - over 3000 years of habitation on the Anatolian plateau, ending in the Late Bronze Age. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient Settlement in Denizli Province, Turkey. One of the largest and most important centres of Anatolia, with forty architectural levels separated into:
4500 - 3200 BCE Levels XL - XX Late Chalcolithic
3200 - 1900 BCE Levels XIX - VI Early Bronze Age
1900 - 1450 BCE Levels V - IV Middle Bronze Age
1450 - 1100 BCE Levels III - I Late Bronze Age

In the settlement which was surrounded by a fortification during the Early Bronze Age, the "Twin Shrines" in megaron plan are the first known public temples in Anatolia.
In the Middle Bronze Age it became one of the largest cities of Anatolia. The "Burned Palace" with at least forty rooms uncovered in Level V is proof that Beycesultan was an important residence of an unknown kingdom.
It should be the city of Arzawa destroyed by the Hittite King Hattusili I.
(Information from the Pamukkale Museum).

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Beycesultan submitted by davidmorgan : Site map and plan of the early 2nd millennium BCE palace at Beycesultan. From the information board at the Hierapolis museum. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Undiscovered ancient sites to come to light in Denizli by davidmorgan on Sunday, 23 August 2015
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Denizli’s Beycesultan Mound is one of the oldest settlements in Anatolia, and undiscovered parts of the mound are set to come to light during archaeological works that restarted in 2007.

An ancient habitat has been newly discovered by the Ege University excavation team at the Beycesultan Mound in Turkey’s western province of Denizli’s Çivril district.

The settlement, located between the Menteş and Kocayaka neighborhoods, was unearthed in the eastern section of the region, and was never noted in the records before.

Excavation works were first initiated at the Beycesultan Mound, one of the oldest settlements in Anatolia, by British archaeologists in 1954 and continued for six seasons. They were carried out at two large areas on the western and eastern parts of the mound, as well as in different parts of the settlement on smaller areas.

Works in the western part were carried out in small fields and aimed at identifying the stratigraphy of the settlement. As a result of the research in this area, 40 cultural layers of uninterrupted settlements dating from the Late Chalcolithic Period to the Late Bronze Age were identified.

In the eastern part, a palace dating back to the 2nd millennium BC, subsequently named “The Burnt Palace,” was partly unearthed.

However, the initial works were halted in 1959 and only taken back up in 2007 by the Ege University Archaeology Department. They have since been carried out by an excavation team of 60 people, headed by Professor Eşref Albay.

The site has a strategic position due to its natural routings that connect the western and southern coasts with the Anatolian interior, according to Abay.

“We have reached very important historical data during our excavation works. We discovered a settlement where 40 cultural layers have so far existed. This settlement, located in Çivril plain watered by the productive Greater Menderes River and its tributaries, is a very important one that shed light on the pre-history of Anatolia,” he said.

“We have revealed that Beycesultan was a very big city, especially in the late Bronze Age, divided by long streets in the east and west with two-storey villas. We are still continuing to work in the area,” Albay added.

Source: Hürriyet
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Re: Beycesultan by davidmorgan on Friday, 09 November 2012
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A report of recent excavations at Beycesultan:
http://arkeoloji.ege.edu.tr/Protohistorya/Projeler/beyce/beyceenglish.htm

"In conclusion, the excavations of 2010 performed in Beycesultan Mound enabled us to reach extremely significant data on the stratigraphy of the Late Bronze Age of the settlement. Some eight new radiocarbon specimens as regards the definite dating of the layers concerned were sent for analysis. We are of the opinion that the possible results of the radiocarbon specimens concerned will contribute significantly to the dating of the Late Bronze Age of the Western Anatolia, which is quite debatable."
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Re: Beycesultan by davidmorgan on Saturday, 27 October 2007
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They're going to be excavating this again next summer (July/August 2008), Dr. Eşref Abay in charge. I've just received an invitation (through YouTube) to go along and have a look.
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