Yağcılar Höyüğü stands in the Yağcılar district 24 kilometres northwest of Muş: on the Muş-Elazığ road, 1,700 metres past the Murat bridge, a road branches north and the mound lies at its seventh kilometre.
Research in the area has concentrated on particular spots and rarely gone beyond them. M. S. Rothman, surveying along the Murat river because of the Alpaslan dam, worked at Yeroluk (Palas) and Bozbulut (Komus) near this mound but made no mention of the mound itself.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Muş as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from -6.8 °C in January to 25.1 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in June and September; rainfall is heaviest in March (109 mm) and lightest in August (6 mm). Long-term means for 1964-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
