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<< Our Photo Pages >> Arslantepe - Ancient Village or Settlement in Turkey

Submitted by AlexHunger on Monday, 26 March 2007  Page Views: 6809

Multi-periodSite Name: Arslantepe Alternative Name: Aslantepe, Melid
Country: Turkey
NOTE: This site is 12.619 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Malatya  Nearest Village: Orduzu
Latitude: 38.381818N  Longitude: 38.361340E
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
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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
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Arslantepe
Arslantepe submitted by AlexHunger : Exhibit in the Ankara Museum. Neo-Hıttıte lion gate ornament taken from the site. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient Settlement in Malatya Province, Turkey

Neo-Hittite city with later Assyrian and Persian occupation within mound. Originally inhabited from the 5th millennium BCE.
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Arslantepe submitted by durhamnature : Carved stone, from "Annals of Archaeology" via archive.org (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Arslantepe submitted by AlexHunger : Larger than life statue of Arslantepe king dating to 800 to 750 BCE in Ankara Museum. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Arslantepe submitted by durhamnature : Carved stone, from "Annals of Archaeology" via archive.org (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Arslantepe submitted by AlexHunger : Bull orthostat from Arslantepe in Ankara Museum. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Arslantepe submitted by AlexHunger : Exhibit in the Ankara Museum. Neo-Hittite grıffon orthostat taken from the site.

Arslantepe
Arslantepe submitted by AlexHunger : Exhibit in the Ankara Museum. Neo-Hittite lion-men orthostat taken from the site.

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The World’s oldest and first swords ever discovered by davidmorgan on Wednesday, 05 April 2023
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The 5,000-year-old swords found 43 years ago during the excavations in the old mud-brick palace structure in Malatya Arslantepe Mound are the oldest swords in the world.

Many archaeologists believed that the earliest swords only dated to around 1600 or 1500 BCE before the discovery of a cache of swords at the archaeological site of Arslantepe in Turkey.

The nine swords from the archaeological site of Arslantepe (Melid) attest to the use of this weapon for the first time in the world – at least a millennium before the already-known examples. They date back to the Early Bronze Age (c. 33rd to 31st centuries).

In the 1980s, Marcella Frangipane’s team at Rome University discovered a cache of nine swords and daggers dating all the way back to 3300 BCE. Frangipane declared the swords of Arslantepe the world’s oldest and first swords ever discovered.

They are made of an alloy of arsenic and copper. Three of the swords were exquisitely inlaid with silver. These weapons have a total length of 45 to 60 cm, which points to either a short sword or a long dagger classification.

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Works finished in Arslantepe to join UNESCO main list by davidmorgan on Friday, 22 March 2019
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The archaeological site of Arslantepe in the eastern province of Malatya, which was added to the tentative list of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 2014, is eyeing being bestowed recognition in the permanent list.

An official application has recently been made for the ancient site, which contains one of the world’s earliest known palaces, well-preserved walls with colorful figures, a 5,500-year-old temple, ancient swords and spears.

Source: Hürriyet
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Ancient adobe throne comes to light by davidmorgan on Wednesday, 26 August 2015
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An ancient throne made of adobe has been found during excavations at Aslantepe in Malatya. The finding is very important according to the head of the excavations, Italian Professor Marcella Frangipane.

This year’s excavations at the ancient Aslantepe site in the eastern province of Malatya have unearthed an adobe throne, estimated to date back to some 5,000 years ago.

Rome’s La Sapienza University academic and Aslantepe excavations head Professor Marcella Frangipane said they had started work in the beginning of August and continued in two different spots.

She said they had found an adobe throne from 3,000 B.C. used by kings or city executives, adding it was a very important finding.

Frangipane said the throne was found in a section of the palace which they thought served as a public building, and it was made of adobe, which is also the construction material of the palace.

She said they also unearthed burned pieces of wood inside the palace, adding, “It might have been be used as a platform to sit on the throne.”

Frangipane said the area around the throne was not a temple, adding there were also two window divisions behind the throne.

The professor said the public building inside the palace in Aslantepe was very big, and continued:

“It has very big walls, two meters thick. Maybe the building has two stories or maybe more. The building is not a temple but a king’s building, which is important. A secular system started in Aslantepe with this palace system. We don’t know exactly but we have found something like this for the first time. The state system starts at this point. There is a small platform in the yard for people to appear before the king. A ceremony is organized for anything but this is not for religion; it shows the power of the state and the king. It is very important to find out how the state system started. This is why Aslantepe is very important.”

Frangipane said with the new discoveries and the existence of the palace, the number of tourists visiting the region would increase.

“There is not such a big and old building in any other place. We took it under protection. We found the gate of the palace 30 years ago. It was still the same. There are paintings on the walls, they still exist, too. They should be covered against humidity. We will organize a tour for tourists. They can see such a wall only here,” she said, adding the municipality and Culture and Tourism Ministry provincial director would assist them for a new project.

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