Private Ancient History Tours of Turkey

For a first visit, Ephesus gives the fullest picture of a Roman city: a paved main street, terrace houses with mosaics, the Library of Celsus and a theater for about 25,000 people. Travelers interested in prehistory should add Göbekli Tepe, which is far older than any Greek or Roman site.

Two: the 6-Day Southeast Turkey tour, from $3,340 per person for two travelers, and the 9-Day Cappadocia & Mesopotamia tour, from $4,865. Both include Göbekli Tepe, Şanlıurfa and Mount Nemrut, with hotels and entrance fees.

Troy and Pergamon are both on the 12-Day tour via Troy and Pergamon, from $4,050 per person for two travelers. Pergamon is also on all three Seven Churches tours, and Troy on the 11-day Gallipoli tour and the 14-day Grand Tour.

Our 6-day southeast tour covers Gaziantep, Halfeti, Mount Nemrut at sunrise, Göbekli Tepe, Şanlıurfa and Mardin. The 9-day tour spends three nights in Cappadocia first and then visits the same region.

Yes. On every tour in this collection the entrance fees for the sites in the itinerary are included in the price.

Göbekli Tepe near Şanlıurfa. UNESCO dates its monumental stone enclosures to about 9600–8200 BC, thousands of years before Stonehenge.