Ziyaret Tepe - Turkey Archaeological Dig Site

Along the banks of the Tigris River in southeastern Turkey, an international team of archaeologists have been excavating the remains of the Assyrian city of Tushhan at the modern site of Ziyaret Tepe since 1997.

Ziyaret Tepe was occupied nearly continuously for 2,400 years starting in the Early Bronze Age (c. 3000 BC). For most of this time, Ziyaret Tepe was a modest village situated in the fertile Tigris floodplain. During the Iron Age (c. 882-610BC), however, Tushhan became an important urban center on the northern periphery of the Assyrian Empire.
Let us take you inside the ruined city of the Assyrians and the modern scientific explorations aimed at recovering and reconstructing its buried past.