| TITLE | DATE CREATED | COLLECTION(S) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Old Van | 1974 | Tom Rasmussen Photographic Collection | |
| Discovered and Going Extinct! The Effects of Human Activity on Turkey’s Plant Biodiversity | 2022-06-15 | Events | Nature has a right to die as well as a right to live, but without human influence… The ‘Discovered and Going Extinct!’ documentary was prepared to inspire and urge people to reconsider their relations… |
| Çatalhöyük Excavations | 1993 to 2017 | Research Projects | Between 1993-2017, under the direction of Ian Hodder, with multiple international teams working side by side, the project aimed to discover as much as possible about the Çatalhöyük site as a whole. |
| Çiftlik Rescue Excavations | 1993 to 2001 | Research Projects | Stephen Hill directed a rescue excavation project at the Classical and Byzantine site of Sinop between 1993 and 2001. Researchers investigated and excavated the standing structures there, and carefull… |
| Zeugma Excavation | 1993 | Research Projects | In 1993, an emergency operation was launched at Zeugma, a Graeco-Roman historical site, following the announcement of the construction of a dam that was likely to submerge the site. The team was succe… |
| Kerkenes Dağ Survey And Excavations | 1993 to 2011 | Research Projects | Beginning in 1993, the BIAA has collaborated in work at the significant Iron Age site of Kerkenes Dağ. |
| Kilise Tepe Excavations | 1994 to 2011 | Research Projects | Between 1994 and 2011, Nicholas Postgate directed excavations at the multi-period site of Kilise Tepe. Researchers mapped, collected finds, and tried to understand more about each period represented. |
| Pınarbaşı Excavations | 1994 to 2005 | Research Projects | Five years were spent excavating at the early site of Pınarbaşı under the direction of Douglas Baird and Mehmet Doğan. The discoveries made at Pınarbaşı were valuable for their contribution to the lar… |
| Çatalhöyük Village Ethnoarchaeology Project | 1995 to 2000 | Research Projects | A project for studying Çatalhöyük and the nearby village of Küçükköy as research sites combining anthropology and archaeology. |
| Cnidus Excavations | 1999 to 2006 | Research Projects | The Classical site of Cnidus had been the subject of multiple British archaeological projects in the 19th and 20th centuries. Between 1999 and 2006, Ian Dennis Jenkins directed a project with the inte… |
| Domuztepe Excavations | 1995 to 2011 | Research Projects | Domuztepe, a mound about 12m high, was first discovered in 1993, and became the subject of a joint study by the University of Manchester and University of California at Los Angeles in 1995. The Britis… |
| Alacami Survey And Excavations | 1997 | Research Projects | In 1997 Richard Bayliss directed excavation and survey work at the Alacami church in Kadirli. |
| Pichvnari Excavations | 1998 to 2009 | Research Projects | Pichvnari in Georgia, a site settled by the Greeks and containing three cemetery areas, had undergone various excavations between the 1950s and 1990. Large-scale work was undertaken jointly by the Bri… |
| Amorium Excavations | 1987 to 2021 | Research Projects | Beginning in 1987, excavation work at Amorium (Afyonkarahisar Province) represents one of the longest-running British archaeological projects in Turkey. |
| Tille Excavation | 1978 to 1990 | Research Projects | Between 1978 and 1990, David French directed excavation work at Tille Höyük, an ancient mound site in Adıyaman Province as part of the rescue project connected to the building of the Karakaya hydroele… |
| Alahan Monastery Excavations | 1952 to 1968 | Research Projects | Between 1952 and 1968, Michael Gough directed nine seasons of excavation work at the monastery at Alahan (Mersin Province). In addition to surveying the site and proposing identities for buildings and… |
| Palace Of The Emperors Excavation | 1952 to 1954 | Research Projects | Between 1952 and 1954, David Talbot Rice directed excavation and restoration work at the Palace of the Emperors in Istanbul. An official opening ceremony for the palace was held in 1952. |
| Beycesultan Excavations | 1954 to 1959 | Research Projects | Seton Lloyd directed excavation work at Beycesultan between 1954 and 1959. Significant structures and objects were discovered, and the stratigraphic evidence they acquired pointed to what was for Anat… |
| Muş Excavation | 1965 | Research Projects | In 1965, Seton Lloyd and Charles Allen Burney undertook excavation work near Kayalıdere village in Muş Province, revealing a fortress and temple structure. Though there was interest in conducting furt… |
| Aşvan Project | 1968 to 1973 | Research Projects | David French directed the Aşvan Project (Elazığ Province) between 1968 and 1973. This unique project undertook both excavation and an extensive research programme that aimed at rescuing historical ma… |
| Pağnik Öreni Excavations | 1968 to 1971 | Research Projects | Between 1968 and 1971, Richard Harper directed the excavation of a Roman frontier fort on the bank of the Euphrates at Pağnik Öreni (Elazığ Province), as the BIAA contribution to the Keban rescue proj… |
| Harran Excavations | 1956 to 1959 | Research Projects | In 1956, and again in 1959, David Storm Rice and Judah Benzion Segal led an excavation of the Great Mosque at Harran in Şanlıurfa Province. Updated site plans were created as the mosque and surroundin… |
| Hacılar Excavations | 1957 to 1960 | Research Projects | Between 1957 and 1960, James Mellaart directed excavation work at Hacılar in Burdur Province. The discoveries made in the course of the excavations were significant for the new information they provid… |
| Can Hasan Excavations | 1961 to 1970 | Research Projects | Excavations, which took place between 1961 and 1970, contributed (along with Çatalhöyük) to a more complete stratigraphic sequence for the Konya Plain. |
| Çatalhöyük Excavations 1961-1965 | 1961 to 1965 | Research Projects | Survey and excavation work at Çatalhöyük was initiated by James Mellaart in 1961, and quickly revealed the largest Neolithic site known in the Near East. Though this highly significant project was clo… |
| Anemurium Excavations | 1962 to 1967 | Research Projects | In 1962, Elisabeth Alföldi-Rosenbaum began a survey of Roman cemeteries in Cilicia in Mersin Province. After some seasons of survey and restoration work at and around Anemurium, an excavation was init… |
| Şar Excavations | 1963 to 1967 | Research Projects | Between 1963 and 1967, Richard Harper directed survey and excavation work at Şar (known in ancient times as Comana Cappadociae) in Adana Province. The 1967 season was undertaken in collaboration with… |
| Ziyaret Tepe Excavations | 2000 to 2011 | Research Projects | Ziyaret Tepe is a multi-period site featuring late Neolithic, early Chalcolithic, middle Assyrian, and neo-Assyrian remains, with an extensive lower town area. Timothy Matney and John MacGinnis direct… |
| Oylum Höyük Survey And Excavations | 2002 to 2005 | Research Projects | The Oylum Höyük project of the multi-period site that showed evidence of occupation between Neolithic and Hellenistic periods began in collaboration with Haceteppe and Ankara Universities, along with… |
| The Tetrapylon Street At Aphrodisias | 2016 to 2018 | Research Projects | Excavation is designed to open this part of the street for visitors and to re-establish the ancient connections between the city’s principal monuments (Tetrapylon, Sebasteion, and Theatre). |
| The Ancient Metallurgy Of The Delice Valley | 2017 to 2018 | Research Projects | The scope of our project, which is sponsored by the BIAA and generously funded by the ITU Research and Science Council, is to identify possible sites of metallurgical production, to locate possible re… |
| Akkerman Fortress Project | 2006 to 2010 | Research Projects | Between 2006 and 2010, an international and inter-disciplinary research project was undertaken on Akkerman fortress (located on the Black Sea in Bilhorod-Dnistrovsky, Ukraine). Beyond undertaking a th… |
| Gre Amer, Batman: A Brief Overview | 2009 to 2020 | Research Projects | |
| News On The Street And Other Research At Aphrodisias In 2018 | 2018 | Research Projects | This project is related to The Tetrapylon Street at Aphrodisias (2016-2018). |
| The East Stoa Project At Labraunda | 2018 | Research Projects | |
| The Ancient Infrastructure Of Apollonia Ad Rhyndacum: Gölyazı Survey 2019 | 2019 | Research Projects | |
| Tabara El Akrad Excavation | 1948 to 1949 | Research Projects | The Tabara El Akrad excavations took place between 1948 and 1949 near Atchana in Hatay Province, with Sinclair Hood acting as project director. The research aimed to discover more about the connection… |
| Polatlı Excavations | 1950 | Research Projects | The Polatlı excavations were directed by Seton Lloyd and Nuri Gökçe in 1951. The work comprised a new investigation into third and second millennium stratigraphy in Anatolia. |
| A Regional Perspective On Tarhuntašša And Tabal | 2019-11-28 | Events | In 2019, the Konya Regional Archaeological Survey Project and the Türkmen-Karahöyük Intensive Survey Project brought to light exciting new evidence about a previously unknown Late Bronze and Iron Age… |
| 2019 Oliver Gurney Memorial Lecture | 2019-10-30 | Events | Professor Mirko Novák (Bern University) will deliver the bi-annual BIAA Oliver Gurney Memorial Lecture on 'Kizzuwatna-Hiyawa-Cilicia: A region at the interface of Anatolia, the Levant and Cyprus… |
| Isauria And The End Of The Roman Empire | 2019-10-16 | Events | The two lecturers will discuss how the ancient region of Isauria (modern Mersin province) was integrated into the Roman Empire from the fourth century AD onwards. Using archaeological results from BIA… |
| Food, Culture And Empire In Ancient Anatolia | 2019-02-20 | Events | You are what you eat! Nothing defines the character and identity of a nation more clearly than its food culture. This was as true in ancient Anatolia as it is in modern Turkey and in Europe. This… |
| Bodies, Bronze, And Başur: What The Dead Have To Say About It | 2021-04-26 | Events | Physical anthropology at the site of Başur Höyük near modern-day Siirt in the Upper Tigris region allows fascinating insights into the Mesopotamian sphere of influence at the crux of the transition to… |
| New Archaeological Evidence From Neoklaudiopolis | 2020-04-02 | Events | The Roman city of Neapolis was founded after the Third Mithradatic War and later renamed Neoklaudiopolis in the emperor's honour. Today, it is known as Vezirköprü. Until 2010, the Roman city was… |
| Rural Hinterlands Of The Black Sea During The Fourth Century BCE | 2021-02-22 | Events | This seminar takes a holistic approach to the data for rural hinterlands in the Black Sea region in the fourth century BCE, in order to reveal pan-Black Sea patterning, importantly including the south… |
| The Cultural Environment and Landscapes of Seleukeia Sidera | 2023-03-28 | Events | Seleukeia Sidera is located in the north of the Pisidia region in SW Türkiye. It was founded under the Seleucids as a military colony to secure one of the main east-west arteries running through north… |
| An old Stone House | 1984-05 | Alan Hall Photographic Collection | |
| Old Stone Houses on Foça Peninsula | 1984-05 | Alan Hall Photographic Collection | |
| Burdur Lake | 1984-05 | Alan Hall Photographic Collection | |
| General View of Samsat Höyük | Alan Hall Photographic Collection |