The tumulus in Maltepe site situated within the borders of Kışla Neighborhood, which is about 20 km to the south of downtown Mut District, Mersin, is archeologically located at a spot overlooking an old road at the intersection of southern plateaus of Kurtsuyu Valley, at the junction of Zeyne, Gülnar and Aydıncık, which controls the route that connects the land of Hittite Empire to Eastern Mediterranean world via the Anatolian Plateau. The oldest settlement tier is dated to the 3rd millennium BC. It was found out that it had commercial ties with Kültepe in Kayseri around 1800 BC. There is also a church from the Byzantine Period. The findings revealed in Kilise Tepe showed that residents of this place were engaged in agriculture and herding, and in parallel with these, they were intensively into weaving. Apart from the Bronze Age, this place was settled during the Hittite Empire, Iron Age and the Hellenistic Period.