The city is located on the seaside to the north of Kumkale, Çanakkale today, and to the west of the ancient city of Tavolia. It seems that nothing has survived from the city to the present day.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mustafa Demir mentions the following in his book History of the Gallipoli Wars Volume I;

Aianteion In the northwest of Troas, on the Hellespontos coast, one of the neighboring cities of Troy is Aianteion. Among the cities listed as Sigeion, Aianteion, Rhoiteion and Ophrineion at the entrance of the strait, the locations of Aianteion and Rhoiteion are constantly confused. Today, it is located on a cape extending into the sea on the shores of the Dardanelles, north of Kumkale town. Known as Tektop Burnu due to the cannons and guards built during World War II, there is a fishing shelter built in recent years to the east of the cape. Aianteion, referred to as the port of the Trojans in ancient sources, takes its name from the tumulus built for Aias. The tumulus overlooking the Skamandros delta, northwest of Kumkale, was used as a watchtower during World War I. Pausanias, in the information he conveyed from the Mysians about the tomb of Aias, says that the waves overcoming the tomb revealed giant bones belonging to Aias. " Pliny, while counting the cities of Troas from the Aegean coast to the north, mentions "Aianteion, founded by the Rhodians and where the tomb of Aias is located." Strabo also says that there was a temple and statue for Aias here. " Marcus Antonius took this statue, along with many other monuments, to Egypt, and it was later brought back by Augustus." In 334 BC, Alexander the Great set foot in Asia a little close to Aianteion. A. Akarca says that Aianteion, which lost its city status in the 1st century AD, may have united with Rhoteion by making a simpolifteia agreement. " In the time of Pausanias, the tomb of Aias was within the borders of Rhoteion. It is claimed that the unification of the cities, both of which were of Oor origin, was an expansion of Troy's influence." However, Rhoteion was not established in 188 BC. The fact that it was connected to Troy in 5 BC somewhat refutes this claim. Aianteion must have continued to be the port of Troy until the end of the XNUMXth century AD.
Aianteion is last mentioned in history in 324 AD. Licinius’ fleet consisting of approximately one hundred ships and Constantinus’ fleet consisting of two hundred ships commanded by Flavius ​​Julius Crispus fought off the coast of Aianteion. Calvert conducted the first excavations in Aianteion. Calvert found graves from various periods from the 6th century BC to the Roman period in the excavations he conducted in the city’s necropolis.” A. Akarca found ceramics from various periods from the 8th century BC to the 2nd century AD in his surface research here: “The ancient settlement starts from the Tektop cape and extends southwards. In the research, the existence of a very old settlement on Tektop dating back to the 3rd millennium BC was determined.