About Başur Höyük
Başur Höyük (pronounced as Bashur) in Turkey's south-eastern Siirt Province is a 5,000-year-old Bronze Age burial site. It is located just outside the city of Siirt near the village of Aktaş in a valley of the upper Tigris River, adjacent to the Başur River. The 820-foot by 492-foot burial mound was excavated in the years up to 2018, by Brenna Hassett of the Natural History Museum in London, and Haluk Sağlamtimur of Ege University in Turkey.
This description is taken from Wikipedia and published under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence. Başur Höyük
Location and Access
Başur Höyük is located in Siirt. Coordinates are 37.98000, 41.77900. You can get directions from the map below. You can request a licensed local guide for Siirt.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Quick Facts
- Province Siirt
- Category Historical Places
- Coordinates 37.98000, 41.77900
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