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Surroundings:

Alaca Hüyük - surroundingsAlaca Hüyük - royal tombsAlaca Hüyük - Hittite townAlaca HüyükAlaca Hüyük - royal tombAlaca - South GateAlaca Hüyük - surroundingsAlaca HüyükAlaca Hüyük - Hittite townAlaca HüyükAlaca Hüyük - royal tombAlaca -  Hittite SfinxAlaca Hüyük - surroundingsAlaca Hüyük - excavations 2013Alaca Hüyük - excavations 2013Alaca Hüyük - to the museumAlaca HüyükReliefs of the Southern GateAlaca Hüyük - excavations 2013Alaca -  gate - descriptionTo Alaca villageAlaca Hüyük - to the museumAlaca HüyükAlaca Hüyük - modern villageAlaca HüyükAlaca - Sphinx GateSfinx GateAlaca Hüyük -  museumAlaca  - description in Turkish and  EnglishAlaca Hüyük

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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