Pioneer Explorers of Anatolian Archaeology presents the biographies of thirty-three important figures who contributed to Anatolian archaeology. The book covers the lives, plans, trips, and excavations of pioneers –ranging from antiquity enthusiasts who traveled to Anatolia in the early nineteenth century to those who excavated during the institutionalisation of archaeology– in regions and cities from prehistoric to classical times. From Charles Fellows, the explorer of Xanthos, the capital city of Lycia, to the Hattusa explorer Charles Texier, from Osman Hamdi Bey, who institunionalised the archaeology in Türkiye to Theodor Makridi Bey, who spent his life running from excavation to excavation on Anatolian roads; from Remzi Oğuz Arık and Arif Müfid Mansel, the first Turkish citizens to study archaeology abroad to Ufuk Esin, the first local archaeologist to excavate with a modern grid system, Jale Inan, who went to Los Angeles in pursuit of a statue smuggled from Türkiye, Tahsin Özgüç, who managed the longest-running excavation project, and Halet Çambel, one of the founders of Karatepe-Aslantaş, Türkiye’s first open-air museum, Pioneer Explorers of Anatolian Archaeology is a study that follows the major developments in “Anatolian Archaceology” over a period of nearly 200 years, tracing the names that made a difference in their field.