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 Yumuktepe Yumuktepe Cappadocia  South of the Cilician Gates, three kilometers north of Mersin, the hillcrest is the site of a partly excavated Hittite fortress. Here too, the wall must have resembled to the wall of Hattusas, although less massive. Yümük Tepe, where twelve different civilizations have so far been discovered, was inhabited for at least six thousand  [ Read More ]

Black Crest Near the ancient Pryamus river, the present Ceyhan between Adana and Maras, a late-period Hittite fortress had once guarded the Amman Gates and the Bahce Pass on the road to Halap (Aleppo in Syria). Excavations on the hill began in 1949 under the supervision of Professor H.T. Bossert, a guest lecturer at the University  [ Read More ]

THE KARUM OF KANESH Impressive areas of this ancient settlement have already been excavated under the direction of Professor Tahsin Özgüc of Ankara. Already during the Bronze Age, the Kingdom of Kanesh was a blooming nation. The actual city comprised two divisions. The mound of Kültepe accommodated the palace of the ruling prince and the residences  [ Read More ]

Kayseri Date Kayseri Turkey   Cappadocia Kayseri informations Cappadocia Kayseri The town has always been an important political and economical center, even in the Hittite times, but if Kayseri itself was a Hittite city, its ancient name is not known. (In fact, it could be identified with several lost cities mentioned in Hittite documents.) Known as Mazaca in  [ Read More ]

Alisar Cappadocia  Alisar Hattusas Alisar Date Half-way between Kayseri and Hattusas in the great bend of the Halys (Kizilirmak) river. The site was already inhabited during the early Bronze Age (3.200 B.C.) and it remained an important township during much of the Hittite epochs. Alisar possessed a strong circuit of walls within which archeologists recovered artifacts showing Troyan influence  [ Read More ]

Ruster’s Peak 150 kilometers northeast of Hattusas, the ruins of a fortified Hittite settlement, where, the recovered archeological relics revealed motives and charateristics that were more Caucasian, than Anatolian.

 Hittite Empire cappadocia The end of the Hittite Empire cappadocia The “People of the Sea”; who they were exactly is not known, but the term ought to have applied to several races, among them the Doric peoples who settled in Northern Greece and the Phrygians who crossed the Marmara straits and invaded Asia Minor with devastating savagery.  [ Read More ]

Inscribed Rock cappadocia  Inscribed Rock informations Inscribed Rock After the beginning of the Hittite Empire period, monumental bas-reliefs in stone, frequently inscribed with hieroglyphs, began to appear either on the lowermost blocks of palaces and temples, or upon dominant cliffs, especially along the one-time Hittite frontiers. Depicting kings and armed warriors, these reliefs were probably serving  [ Read More ]