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🏛️ Pergamon and its Multi-Layered Cultural Landscape: Yigma Tepe Tumulus

Archaeology & Antiquity Türkiye Asia

🏛️ Pergamon and its Multi-Layered Cultural Landscape: Yigma Tepe Tumulus
Hellenistic royal burial mound in western Turkey


🕐 2 min read · Updated 10 Apr 2026 at 17:57

UNESCOUNESCO World Heritage Site

📌 Fast Facts
  • Location: Izmir Province, western Turkey
  • Period: Hellenistic, 3rd–2nd century BCE
  • Type: Royal or elite burial tumulus with internal chambers
  • UNESCO inscription: 2014

The Yigma Tepe Tumulus is a Hellenistic burial mound located within the Pergamon archaeological landscape in western Turkey ...

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