4000-year-old “baby rattle” discovered in Kültepe Kaniş-Karum, Turkey. Image via archaeologynewsnetwork. Without concrete evidence, however, who’s to say there wasn’t a prehistoric human with a carved ...

Weiss, renowned for his research on the Akkadian Empire's collapse from severe drought, has joined the excavation team to delve into the ancient society's response to climate change. The research aims ...

75 scholars from 12 countries attended the 6th International Kultepe Meeting held in Kultepe, Kayseri, Türkiye, August 4, 2024 (AA Photo) The 6th International Kültepe Meeting was held from ...

Kültepe, the site of the ancient city of Kanesh, is one of the most important archaeological sites in the world. It is located 20 km east of the capital of Cappadocia in central Turkey.

The Kültepe Cheese tablets aren’t the only significant find researchers made at Kültepe recently. Kulakoğlu and his team also announced the discovery of another 4,000-year-old tablet that seems to ...

Archaeologists have unearthed intriguing details about the daily life in ancient Anatolia, thanks to tablets found in the Kültepe-Kaniş-Karum ruins of Kayseri in Central Türkiye. These documents ...

KAYSERİ, TURKEY—According to a Hürriyet Daily News report, three documents describing a local cheese have been uncovered at the site of Kültepe-Kaniş-Karum in central Anatolia.

Kültepe Excavation Head Professor Fikri Kulakoğlu said that the first company in Anatolia was founded 4 thousand years ago by 12 people with 15 kilos of gold. Prof. Dr. Kulakoğlu states that most of ...

Kültepe: An Archaeological Treasure Kültepe (ash-hill) is an archaeological site in Kayseri Province, Türkiye, inhabited from the beginning of the 3rd millennium BC, in the Early Bronze Age. The ...

Then the group will travel to the archeological site called Kültepe Kanesh. It is located on fertile land and converging routes, making it inevitable to become the center of trade and politics by ...

The Old Assyrian merchant archives consisting of ca 23,500 tablets from Kültepe constitute a unique textual corpus in world history. The trade is documented in great detail through the archives, ...

Excavations at the Kültepe Kaniş-Karum Mound in the central Anatolian province of Kayseri are in full swing. The director leading the excavations anticipates that the process of uncovering all the ...