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🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Early to Middle Bronze Age (Assyrian Colony Age) · Anatolian Hattian/ Hittite + Old Assyrian merchants
Double city: 21 m Anatolian upper town Kanesh + lower Karum Assyrian merchant colony (c.2100–1700 BCE) with 23,500 Old Assyrian cuneiform tablets — largest private archive of Bronze Age.