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Multi-periodSite Name: Karum Kanes Alternative Name: Kârum Kaneš, Kanesh
Country: Turkey Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Kayseri
Latitude: 38.853395N  Longitude: 35.639151E
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3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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4 Access:
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4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
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1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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Karum Kanes
Karum Kanes submitted by davidmorgan : The remains of a 1900 BCE Assyrian trade colony in Anatolia. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Kârum Kaneš was an early 2nd millennium BCE Assyrian trade colony in Kayseri Province, Turkey (Anatolia). During the Bronze Age in this region, the Kârum was a portion of the city set aside by local officials for the early Assyrian merchants to use without paying taxes, as long as the goods remained inside the kârum.

The term kârum means "port" in Akkadian, the lingua franca of the time, although it was extended to refer to any trading colony whether it bordered water or not. Several other cities in Anatolia also had kârum, but the largest was Kaneš. This important kârum was inhabited by merchants from Assyria for hundreds of years, who traded local tin and wool for luxury items, foodstuffs and spices, and, woven fabrics from the Assyrian homeland and from Elam.

Note: The 4000 year old ancient trade tablets of Kültepe have been accepted into the UNESCO Memory of the World Register, see the comments on our page for more details
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Karum Kanes submitted by davidmorgan : Ancient Assyrian traders lived here. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Karum Kanes submitted by davidmorgan : An oven. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Karum Kanes submitted by davidmorgan : Level IB - 1800-1750 BCE. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Karum Kanes submitted by davidmorgan : A cist grave. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Kültepe ancient trade tablets added to UNESCO Memory of the World Register by davidmorgan on Saturday, 17 October 2015
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The Kültepe Tablets, the earliest written documentation of life in Anatolia, have been included in the UNESCO Memory of the World Register.

The Old Assyrian merchant archives consisting of ca 23,500 tablets from Kültepe form a unique textual corpus in world history. The trade is documented in great detail through the archives, alongside the daily intricacies of the families and their commercial and private dealings with the local population.

At a press conference held on Oct. 16 at the Kayseri Archaeology Museum, Kayseri Governor Orhan Düzgün said Profesor Fikri Kulakoğlu had applied for the inclusion of Kültepe in the Memory of the World Register, with the initiative of the Kültepe excavation head.

“In this way, Kayseri will draw the attention of people interested in history and culture. We believe that the number of visitors will increase at the ancient site of Kültepe where these tablets were found and the Kayseri Museum where they are on display,” the governor said.

Düzgün said the artifacts would be moved to the new archaeology museum, which is under construction inside the Kayseri Castle, in 2016. “The new museum will have a more contemporary style,” he added.

Kayseri Mayor Mustafa Çelik said the geography of Kayseri had a history of 5,000 years, adding, “The genetic codes of our business mind are written on these tablets.”

Kulakoğlu said the existence of the ancient clay tablets distinguished Kayseri from other cities, as the “richest part of Anatolia” had been found there. “The people of Anatolia learned how to read and write in Kültepe,” he said, adding that the site had contributed many artifacts to museums in other cities, such as Ankara Museum of Anatolian Civilizations and the Istanbul Archeology Museum. Regarding the clay tablets, he said, “The tablets have information about the activities of ancient traders. They shed light not only on Anatolian history but also on the history of Mesopotamia and Syria. Everything money-related are on these tablets.”

Source: Hürriyet
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4,000-year-old tablets found in Turkey include women’s rights by davidmorgan on Sunday, 19 July 2015
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The Kültepe-Kaniş-Karum trade colony in the Central Anatolian province of Kayseri continues to amaze archeologists, with an expert at the dig revealing that tablets citing women’s rights were discovered at the Bronze Age settlement.

Excavations at the ancient tumulus site began in 1948. So far, it has been discovered the center was where the written history of Anatolia began and the largest monumental structure of the Middle East was unearthed in 2013. A centuries-old baby rattle and a tablet about the sale of a donkey were unearthed last year.

Last month, the 2015 excavation season began in Kültepe. The head of the excavation team, Prof. Fikri Kulakoğlu of Ankara University, told Doğan News Agency on July 16 the site was remarkable not only because the priceless tablets revealed commercial information about the Assyrians, but also about the local social life of the time with all kinds of personal details about individuals.

“From women’s rights to the adoption of children and marriages arranged at birth, the tablets include all kinds of civilizational and social data from Anatolia 4,000 years ago. There is also an emotional letter from a woman to her husband and a letter from another woman who complains about her mother-in-law. You can’t find such things in an empire’s official archive,” he said.

Still, most of the 23,500 cuneiform tablets unearthed at Kültepe were about commerce. “Kültepe is where the Anatolian enlightenment began. The people in this area were literate much earlier than other places in Anatolia, including its west,” Kulakoğlu added.

Some 90 percent of the Kültepe tablets can be seen in the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations in Ankara. Some of them are exhibited at the site and are expected to be transferred soon to a new archaeology museum under construction in Kayseri, deemed to be the most important museum of the historic Cappadocia region.

“This is a huge wealth,” Kulakoğlu said, voicing his hope that the trade colony will soon be included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.

The settlement in the tumulus is composed of segments from the early Bronze Age, the middle Bronze Age, the Iron Age and Ancient Greece and Rome.

One of the most important discoveries was a tablet from 2000 B.C., which explains there were local kingdoms in Anatolia at that time and the Kaniş Kingdom was the most powerful one.

Only a small area of Kültepe, which is thought to have hosted over 70,000 people four millennia ago, has been excavated so far. Officials say it might take 5,000 years to excavate the entire ancient site.

Source: Hürriyet
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Kültepe digs may reveal new written documents by davidmorgan on Tuesday, 25 June 2013
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This year the Kültepe archaeological excavations will once again continue in Kayseri. The head of the excavations says the works will particularly focus on an area from the Bronze Age.

The archaeological excavations that started in 1948 at the Karum tumulus of the Kültepe/Kaniş province of the central province of Kayseri are still ongoing around 20 kilometers from the Kayseri-Sivas highway. The head of the Kültepe excavations, Professor Fikri Kulakoğlu, told Anatolia news agency some details about the works. “We are planning to work in an area of the Bronze Age, about 5,000 years earlier than today. These studies will be held by a scientific committee consisting of 70 people,” Kulakoğlu.

He said the name “Kültepe” had been known since 1871, when the cuneiform tablet, known as the “Cappadocia Tablets,” were found. The first excavation in Kültepe was then led by Ernst Chantre from 1893 to 1894. Excavations continued with H. Winckler and H. Grothe in 1906.

Kulakoğlu said the excavations would continue in Karum (Down River), aiming to find traces from as many as 5,000 years ago. “We started our excavations on June 15. Karum has an importance of being the starting point of the Anatolian history, so the excavations need to be conducted even more carefully compared to other cities. In this year, we are planning an opening in the Karum area and the traces of 5,000 years ago from the Bronze Age will be examined. These studies will continue under the control of a scientific commission of 70 people and students from different universities will also join the excavations. The project will continue for three-and-a-half months. Our biggest aim in these studies is to find traces and tablets from earlier times in the Karum area,” he added.

The local municipality supports the excavations. “[Kayseri Mayor] Mehmet Özhaseki has some cultural tours that are beneficial for the introduction of the area, as much as his contributions to the cleaning and excavation of the area. Theater performances are also included in these culture tours. I am really grateful for their efforts because they are realizing activities that are unique in Turkey.”

Kulakoğlu said the changes occurring in Anatolia 5,000 years ago could be observed in the other tumulus and settled areas of Turkey, while on the other hand no other area in Turkey had information even dating back to 2000 B.C. “Besides, this information is not only about Turkey, but also enlightens the dark sides of neighboring countries’ histories,” he added, without elaborating.

The cuneiform writings of Kültepe are the oldest documents found in the Turkish lands. “For this reason, Kültepe is where Anatolian history begins. There are 25,000 cuneiform writings found in Kültepe up to now. The most important of these documents is the tablet from 2000 B.C., which explains that there were local kingdoms in Anatolia at that time and the Kaniş Kingdom was the most powerful local kingdom in Anatolia. Merchants from Asur, which is 1,000 kilometers away, came to Kaniş to use the natural sources of Anatolia,” explained Kulakoğlu.

The Kaniş, Karum and Kültepe area has a 550 meter diameter and 20 meter height. The settlement in the cumulus is composed of segments from the early Bronze Age, the middle Bronze Age, the Iron Age, and Ancient Greece and Rome.

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