Travel Guide Catal Höyük

Of this Neolithic site, made up of two large mounds on 37 hectares, in the south of the Anatolian plateau, discovered by the English archaeologist James Mellaart, in 1958, it does not remain much to see. All that was there was integrated into the collections of the museums of Konya and Ankara. The site however testifies to the different ways of life which succeeded one another during two millennia on this place with a unique organization: rows of houses stuck the ones to the others and which communicate by the roofs in a desert landscape without street. It is the only Neolithic site listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Near East.