Turkey s latest UNESCO Heritage Site is the Arslantepe Mound
Times of IndiaTIMESOFINDIA.COM|TRAVEL NEWS, TURKEY Created : Aug 4, 2021, 07:00 IST
Turkey’s Arslantepe Mound is the latest site to be included in the UNESCO World Heritage Site list. The archaeological structure is about 8000 years old. The announcement to include this new site was made during the UNESCO World Heritage Committee’s 44th session. The organisation said that The Arslantepe Mound is one of the earliest religious, and civil sites of Turkey.
According to a statement by UNESCO, “The archaeological site of Arslantepe is located on Southeastern Turkey on the Malatya plain, 5 kilometers from the city center and 15 km from the Euphrates River. Malatya is merely a one-hour flight distance from Istanbul. It is a 4-hectare and 30-meter high archaeological mound dominating the plain and formed by the superimposition of settlements for millennia from at least the 6th mill