Fethiye Tombs | A tour of Ancient Lycian Tombs

Fethiye is a port city, and district, on Turkey's southwestern Turquoise Coast. It's known for its natural harbor, blue waters and numerous rock tombs including the 4th-century B.C. Tomb of Amyntas, carved into a bluff overlooking the city.

Fethiye City is known for its diverse tourist attractions . The Turkish Riviera has a lot to offer from cultural history to its beautiful locations. Fethiye offers activities like Boat Tours, Beaches, paragliding and Trekking. The Lycian tombs are one of the best attractions to visit while being in Fethiye.

The Lycian way is a trekking route offering Ancient left overs the Tombs built into the mountains. The trail runs through the ancient Lycia. It starts from Fethiye and continues towards Antalya for approximately 500 KM where it ends near Konyaalti, Antalya.


Lycia was a region on the Western Taurus Mountains in Teke Peninsula at southwestern Anatolia on the Mediterranean Sea coast, located in what are today the provinces Muğla and Antalya. According to historians, Lycian people lived in the prehistoric Late Bronze Age. They built city-states along the Mediterranean Sea coast such as Xanthos, Patara, Myra, Pinara, Tlos, Olympos and Phaselis, formed the Lycian League.

Thanks to their strategic location, they had best opportunities for sea trade and even piracy

In later times, the region of Lycia was occupied by the Persian Empire, Ancient Greece, and then controlled by Ancient Rome, Byzantine Empire, Seljuk Empire, and finally the Ottoman Empire.

Rock-cut tombs on cliff walls in the region testify to the Lycian civilization. The Tomb of Amyntas, also known as the Fethiye Tombs, These tombs are built onto the cliff walls of Fethiye city.

This place was known as ancient Greek city of Telmessos, in Lycia, which was, at the time a province of the Achaemenid Empire, currently, in the district of Fethiye in Muğla Province, located in the Aegean region of Turkey. Cut into the side of the mountains sitting above Fethiye the Lycian Rock Tombs.

Gazing toward them, they have all the earmarks of being lavish doorways driving into the mountain, and it is where the Lycian public buried their deceased. These burial places was built by the Lycians in 350 BC.

After a scripture found from the site with Greek engraving. These were names 'Amyntas child, of Hermagios'. There is a small fee to enter these tombs. You have to climb approximately 200 steps to reach the main tomb.
The tomb is built into the rocks of the mountain and have small opening inside which seems just to be made for the bodies. There are tombs which have more space inside but they can be found on the Lycian way. The condition of the tomb is quite good and it very well maintained. The craftsman ship shows that people were highly skilled to carve into the mountain to build these tombs.

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00:00 Start - Tombs of Amyntas, Fethiye
01:50 History of Tombs of Amyntas
03:36 Ticket Office and The entrance to the tombs of Amyntas
04:26 Stairs to the main Tomb of Amyntas
04:52 Fethiye City View from the stairs going to the Tombs of Amyntas
05:43 Tomb of Amyntas closeup view from front
06:16 Tomb of Amyntas from Inside
06:43 Tomb of Amyntas pillar structure
07:07 Tomb of Amyntas structure overview
08:51 Exploring the smaller tombs on the mountain