Mound Ersele

Ersele Höyük is a village in the district of Chatin, in the Ortaköy district of Aksaray county, Inner Anatolia region of Turkey.

The cave was discovered by David Henry French. It is conical in shape and 125 metres wide and 20 metres high. Sachihiro Omura considers the structure to be among the first Bronze Age settlements. The structure is on the list of documented archaeological sites. The cave remains in the middle of the agricultural land still in use and lies just south of the Underground City of Ersele.

Ethnology

The word originally came from the Old Turkic root of the urs (up) or urs (up).

Key facts

Type: archaeological site, mound
Height: 20 m
Area: 10,000 m²
Elevation: 1,150 m
Part of: Ersele Underground City

Facts from Wikidata.

Coordinates: 38.679722, 34.214722Open in Google Maps

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Sources

The text on this page is translated from: Ersele Höyük (tr.wikipedia.org), as of 8 March 2026

Text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.