Rock sanctuary
Rock & underground · Çorum

Yazılıkaya

UNESCO World HeritageHittite3 km from Boğazkale

The Hittites’ open-air rock sanctuary just outside Hattusa: a procession of gods and goddesses carved into two limestone chambers, and King Tudhaliya IV held in the arm of his god.

Plan the visitIts place in history

Plan your visit

Time to allow
About 1 hour

For a first visit at an easy pace.

Stay in
Boğazkale

3 km away as the crow flies, so allow more on the road.

On a trip
The Hittite heartland

Day 2 of 3.

Hours and tickets
Check before you go

Opening hours and prices change: see muze.gov.tr (opens in a new tab).

Times are our estimates. Distances are straight lines.

Its place in history

Read the chapter before you go.

1650–1180 BCHittitesBefore the Hittites, Assyrian merchants traded tin and cloth at Kanesh and kept their letters on clay.

From here

Boğazkale

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Also nearby

  • 2 km
    Hattusa (Hattuşa)

    Capital city, Hittite (Late Bronze Age)

  • 21 km
    Tavium

    City, Galatian–Roman

  • 24 km
    Alacahöyük

    Höyük / Hittite town, Early Bronze–Hittite

  • museum
    Alacahöyük Museum
  • museum
    Boğazköy Museum

    Hattusa sphinxes, tablets

  • museum
    Çorum Museum

    Hittite finds

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