Anatolian Bronze Age Cultures
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TheEarly Bronze Age is the period when a series of changes took place in bothWestern Anatolia and mainland Greece. These include craft specialization, the intensification of inter- regional trade, the construction of special purpose... more
This dictionary is based on Alwin Kloekhorst's Etymological Dictionary of the Hittite Inherited Lexicon. The aim is to create a dictionary that contains Hittite words with the correct pronunciation.
Kültepe, the ancient city of Kanesh, is defined as one of the most important urban centers in the ancient Near East. The lower town, surrounding the mound measures up to two and a half kilometers in diameter, and must have provided enough... more
A mural in an Etruscan tomb dating circa. 650 B.C. shows the well where Achilles met Hector, and the painting of the well is identical in form to that unearthed by Henry Schliemann in his excavations at Troy.
Archaeological excavations have been ongoing at Seyitömer Höyük, province of Kütahya, Turkey, at intervals since 1990. The stratigraphy shows five layers: (I) Roman, (II) Hellenistic, (III) Achaemenid, (IV) Middle Bronze Age, (V) Early... more
This dissertation was never published (finished by Nicholas Bayne in 1963), and remained so until A. Schachner and D. Hertel who, many years later in the 1990s, took an interest in the early work of Bayne when they where analyzing the... more
Öz Hititçe çivi yazılı metinlerde yaz mevsiminin var olup olmadığı belirsizdir. Ancak bazı tarihçiler yazın gerçekleştirilen tarımsal faaliyetler için kullanılan BURU 14 kelimesinin aynı zamanda yaz mevsimi için de kullanıldığını iddia... more
From the bull and deer paintings of Çatalhöyü k houses to the lion and vulture carvings of Göbeklitepe pillars, Neolithic Anatolia has given us a glimpse of the variety of roles animals play in human imagination and in daily human life:... more