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<< Other Photo Pages >> Turkmen Karahoyuk - Ancient Village or Settlement in Turkey

Submitted by davidmorgan on Wednesday, 26 February 2020  Page Views: 2666

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Turkmen Karahoyuk Alternative Name: Türkmen Karahöyük
Country: Turkey
NOTE: This site is 23.885 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Çumra  Nearest Village: Türkmenkarahüyük
Latitude: 37.623230N  Longitude: 33.029400E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
2 Ambience:
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1Awful
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5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
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2co-ordinates of the nearest village
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Turkmen Karahoyuk
Turkmen Karahoyuk submitted by dodomad : A tip from a local Turkish farmer led archaeologists to this stone half-submerged in an irrigation canal. Inscriptions from the 8th century B.C. are still visible. Photo Credit: James Osborne Site in Turkey (Vote or comment on this photo)
An ancient mound on the Konya plain in Turkey that has recently been identified as a major city of the 2nd-1st millennium BCE, and possibly the once Hittite capital, Tarhuntašša. A tip from a local Turkish farmer led archaeologists to this stone half-submerged in an irrigation canal. Inscriptions from the 8th century B.C. are still visible. More details in the comments on our page. Photo Credit: James Osborne
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Turkmen Karahoyuk
Turkmen Karahoyuk submitted by dodomad : The archaeological mound at Türkmen-Karahöyük. Photo Credit: James Osborne Site in Turkey (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Tip from local farmer helps uncover ancient Bronze and Iron Age city by davidmorgan on Tuesday, 25 February 2020
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News originally from the University of Chicago - Oriental Institute archaeologists help discover lost kingdom in ancient Turkey.

Archaeologists from the Oriental Institute have helped discover a lost ancient kingdom dating to the ninth to seventh centuries B.C., which may have defeated Phrygia, the kingdom once ruled by King Midas, in battle.

In summer 2019, University of Chicago scholars and students joined an international survey team in southern Turkey to investigate Türkmen-Karahöyük, a large Bronze and Iron Age mounded settlement that was occupied between about 3500 and 100 B.C. The Konya Regional Archaeological Survey Project, directed by Michele Massa with the British Institute at Ankara, Christoph Bachhuber with Oxford University and Fatma Şahin with Çukurova University, had identified the settlement as a major archaeological site in 2017.

Last summer, a local farmer told them he’d seen a big stone with strange inscriptions while dredging a nearby irrigation canal the previous winter.

“My colleague Michele Massa and I rushed straight there, and we could see it still sticking out of the water, so we jumped right down into the canal—up to our waists wading around,” said Asst. Prof. James Osborne of the OI, one of the foremost centers of research on the ancient world. “Right away it was clear it was ancient, and we recognized the script it was written in: Luwian, the language used in the Bronze and Iron ages in the area.”
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Hittite inscriptions reveal ancient city by davidmorgan on Tuesday, 25 February 2020
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Lots in the news today about this:

Science Alert - Archaeologists in Turkey Discover a Mysterious Ancient Kingdom Lost in History
Phys Org - Archaeologists discover lost city that may have conquered the kingdom of Midas
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