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Alaca HüyükAlaca Hüyük -Cafe, souvenirsAlaca Hüyük - Hittite tunnelAlaca Hüyük - Sfinx Gate - descriptionReliefs - Sfinks GateAlaca Hüyük - tombsAlaca - Hittite settlementAlaca HüyükAlaca Hüyük - modern villageAlaca Hüyük - Hittite tunnelAlaca Hüyük - Hittite sculptureReliefs - Sfinks GateAlaca Hüyük - tombsTo  Alaca HüyükAlaca Hüyük - excavations 2013Alaca Hüyük - KindergartenAlaca Hüyük - Hittite tunnelAlaca Hüyük - Hittite sculptureReliefs - Sfinks GateAlaca Hüyük - royal tombSphinxes and Reliefs of Southern GateAlaca Hüyük - excavations 2013Alaca Hüyük - modern villageAlaca HüyükAlaca Hüyük - Hittite sculptureAlaca Hüyük -  museumAlaca Hüyük - royal tombReliefs of the Southern GateAlaca Hüyük - excavations 2013Alaca Hüyük - scenery

Location:

  • Türkiye, Alacahüyük
  • geo:40.234043,34.695721
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -2350~ / -2150~

Class:

  • Grave or burial field
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=25539

Annotations

Royal necropolis of Alaca is created by thirteen tombs dating from about 2500 BC.

Sources:

  1. Jak Yakar, Presumed Social Identity of the Occupants of Late Third MIllennium BC Alacahoyuk and Horoztepe "Royal Tombs"in: Journal of Archaeomythology 7: pp. 1–8 - https://www.academia.edu/9686868
  2. Joost Blasweiler, The Kalehisar mountain and the deities of Arinna, the city of the Sun Goddess, Arnhem (nl) 2017 –  1 Anatolia in the bronze age - https://www.academia.edu/30853831

Nearby

Alacahöyük - Alacahüyük

Neolithic and Hittite settlement. Its Hittite name is unknown.

Alacahöyük - Alacahüyük, Sfinx Gate

Sphinx Gate at the Ancient Hittite Town of Alaca Huyuk.


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