Cobija, Urfa man, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Urfa Man, Şanlıurfa Archaeology Museum. The museum holds the excavated objects from across the Taş Tepeler sites.
Cobija, Urfa man, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Urfa Man, Şanlıurfa Archaeology Museum. The museum holds the excavated objects from across the Taş Tepeler sites.
Southeastern Türkiye
The ancient city at the heart of the Taş Tepeler world — gateway to Göbekli Tepe and Karahan Tepe, and home to the Şanlıurfa Archaeology Museum and Urfa Man, one of the oldest life-sized statues ever found.
Şanlıurfa in context
Şanlıurfa — ancient Urfa — is the modern city at the centre of the Taş Tepeler landscape and the natural gateway to the sites. It is home to the Şanlıurfa Archaeology Museum, one of the largest in Türkiye, where Urfa Man and finds from across the region are displayed.
For a visitor, Şanlıurfa ties the scattered landscape into a single story. The dispersed sites give up their pillars, statues and objects; the museum's galleries bring them together, so you can stand among the carved heads and vessels of a dozen sites in one afternoon.
The wider world
Şanlıurfa is the modern city that anchors the Taş Tepeler region — the place you stay, and where the museum brings the finds from all the sites together under one roof.
Visit
Small-group and private tours across the Taş Tepeler landscape, led by people who know the ground.
Full bibliography: the Taş Tepeler reference library →
Last reviewed 21 July 2026. Something wrong?
Last reviewed 21 July 2026. Something wrong?
