Tag: Bronze Age
Bronze Age in Turkey covers roughly 3300–1200 BCE, from the rise of early Anatolian city-states to the collapse of the great Late Bronze Age kingdoms. You’ll find stories and travel guides linked to Early, Middle, and Late Bronze Age Anatolia: Assyrian trade colonies in central Anatolia, Hittite kingdoms and imperial Hattusa, the world of Troy on the northwest coast, and their connections with Mycenaean Greece, Syria, and Mesopotamia. No single find captures that interconnected world more vividly than the Uluburun Wreckage, a Late Bronze Age trading ship that sank off the Lycian coast around 1305 BCE — its cargo of copper, tin, glass, ebony, ivory, and gold, drawn from at least seven cultures, is now the centerpiece of the Bodrum Museum of Underwater Archaeology. It’s where we explore how this Bronze Age “international age” laid the groundwork for the later Iron Age, Classical, and Hellenistic worlds you meet on our tours today.
