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Partially excavated places tagged “cuneiform”

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🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell

Sultantepe

Middle Bronze to Neo-Assyrian · Hurrian → Mitanni → Assyrian

Neo-Assyrian library mound Huzirina with 600 tablets outside the gate – scholarly twin to Nineveh.

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🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city

Hattusa

Hittite Empire (Middle Bronze Age to Late Bronze) · Hittite

Capital of Hittite Empire (1600–1180 BCE) with double walls 8 km, Lion Gate, Sphinx Gate, Great Temple and rock sanctuary Yazılıkaya with 90+ reliefs of gods. Archives of 30,000 cuneiform tablets.