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<< Text Pages >> Kayalipinar - Ancient Village or Settlement in Turkey

Submitted by davidmorgan on Thursday, 28 November 2013  Page Views: 2054

Multi-periodSite Name: Kayalipinar Alternative Name: Kayalıpınar, Samuha, Šamuha
Country: Turkey Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Sivas  Nearest Village: Kayalıpınar
Latitude: 39.619633N  Longitude: 36.528063E
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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
0No data.
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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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Hittite city of Samuha will be open to visitors in 2024 by davidmorgan on Monday, 27 November 2023
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The 3,800-year-old Hittite city Kayalıpınar, located in the Yıldızeli district of Sivas and formerly known as Samuha, is planned to be opened to visitors next year.

The excavations in Kayalıpınar began in 2005 under the supervision of Associate Professor Dr. Vuslat Müller Karpe from Philipps University of Marburg, Germany. It’s have been ongoing intermittently up to the present day.

In the city, there are traces of structures from the Assyrian Trade Colonies, Hittite, Roman and Byzantine periods, as well as tombs from the Hellenistic, Roman and Early Christian periods.

Many seal impressions belonging to Hittite kings, princes and officials were also uncovered during the excavations.

In the excavations conducted under the leadership of Vuslat Müller-Karpe in 2014, a Hittite cuneiform tablet was discovered, which provided information that the old name of the Kayalıpınar archaeological site was indeed “SAMUHA.”

Read more at Anatolian Archaeology.
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Palace from Hittite era discovered in Sivas by davidmorgan on Thursday, 28 November 2013
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A grand piece of Hittite legacy has been uncovered in Sivas’ Yıldızeli district, with a palace being the latest discovery at the “Kayalıpınar Excavation Site”. The palace, estimated to have been built in 1500 B.C., has been classified as a protected site by local authorities. Archeologists will further excavate the site immediately where the palace was discovered to reveal detail that could further shed light on the palace.

German-based Academic Vuslat Müller Karpe said this year the Kayalıpınar excavations ceased relatively quick as the team assigned to the excavation had completed all necessary excavation work.

Noting that Kayalıpınar was home to four different civilizations in the past, Karpe said the palace has unearthed many artifacts from the Hittite era, found from among the 40-plus room palace.

“We have unearthed more than 100 pieces of military equipment in the palace’s storage area,” she said.

Tablets with Hittite script were also part of the discovery, Karpe added, with the tablets depicting prophecies, religious festivals as well as bird fortune-telling, among other scenes.

Karpe advised that the palace had been completely burned down once only to be reconstructed again, with the Hittite empire, ruling over most of the Anatolian Peninsula, disintegrating in 1178 B.C.

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