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🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
EB to Roman (c.3000 BCE–200 CE; karum 2100–1700 BCE, 22k tablets) · Anatolian → Old Assyrian karum (kārum) → Hittite Kanesh
Kültepe is ancient Kanesh/Nesa — the Assyrian merchant colony (karum) with 22,000 Old Assyrian cuneiform tablets (largest OB archive) documenting bronze–silver...
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Early Bronze III to Iron Age (c.2600–600 BCE; peak OA period) · Assyrian Colony/Old Hittite/Middle Bronze Anatolian
Massive Old Assyrian palace mound at Yeşilova with twin burnt palaces, bulla archives and Purushanda identification.
