Kültepe

Kayseri Province · Turkey

Kültepe, Turkey
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The ancient Kanesh, a Bronze Age city whose lower town housed an Assyrian merchant colony. Thousands of cuneiform clay tablets found here document some of the earliest recorded trade in Anatolia.

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