Photo: “Karatepe North Gate portal 5321”, Dosseman · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and resized for the web.
TÜRKIYE · 8TH CENTURY BC
Karatepe-Aslantaş Archaeological Site
Azatiwataya
The fortress of Azatiwataya on the Ceyhan River is an Iron Age frontier centre known for relief-lined monumental gates, a Phoenician–Hieroglyphic Luwian bilingual text and the long settlement sequence opposite it.
- Original name
- Azatiwataya
- Country
- Türkiye
- Period
- 8th century BC
- Civilisation
- Neo-Hittite
- UNESCO
- On the World Heritage Tentative List
- Location
- 37.2959° N, 36.2537° E Open in OpenStreetMap Open in Apple Maps
Open in the app Coming soon to the App Store
If Antigone is installed, this button opens the city straight in the app.
A QUESTION FROM THE ROAD
Karatepe stands on the bank of which river?
The answer, and all of the city’s lessons, are in the app.