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.”
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