yol means road
Pick a road. We’ll tell you the tales.
8 roads through 12,000 years of Anatolia, built from 2,706 ancient sites and 118 museums, with a passport stamp for every stop.
rock tombs by the sea
How it works
1
Pick a road
Ready-made roads join World Heritage sites, museums and detours, a few hours apart.2
Read the tale
Every stop has a page: what it was, what was found there and which museum has it now.3
Fill the passport
55 stops to stamp across the 8 roads, 23 of them World Heritage, from Troy in the west to Ani on the Armenian border.Tales to start with
Worth the detour
Pamukkale travertinesDenizli · next to Hierapolis
KekovaAntalya · sunken Lycian ruins
Cappadocia fairy chimneysNevşehir · around Göreme
Ishak Pasha PalaceAğrı · below Mount Ararat
SafranboluKarabük · Ottoman timber houses
It happened here first
- Oldest known life-size naturalistic human statueUrfa Man (Balıklıgöl statue) · Balıklıgöl, Şanlıurfa
- Oldest known swordsArslantepe swords (arsenical copper, some silver-inlaid) · Arslantepe
- First writing in Anatolia, and the oldest Indo-European wordsKültepe (Kanesh) merchant tablets · Kültepe