Tatarlı Höyük rises inside the village of Tatarlı on a basalt outcrop, and together with that rock it stands 35 metres high, spreading over an area of roughly 300 by 180 metres. It lies about 50 km east of the city of Adana and 24 km east of Ceyhan.
The team digging here, led by Serdar Girginer, has uncovered many rooms of a Late Bronze Age complex known as Building A. Its most distinctive feature is a channel for waste water that runs through the middle of the complex.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Adana as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 9.6 °C in January to 28.8 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in April, May, October and November; rainfall is heaviest in December (125 mm) and lightest in August (9 mm). Long-term means for 1929-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
