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Kültepe (Kanesh)

Bronze Age city of Kanesh with an Old Assyrian merchant colony (kārum); its cuneiform archive is the largest private text collection of the ancient Near East.

Dated events and their evidence

• 1,970 BCE mainstream
  Assyrian kārum established; trade archive begins source
• 1,700 BCE mainstream
  kārum abandoned; early Hittite transition source

Where

38.8500° N, 35.6330° E

Sources

• https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2023.105917
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%BCltepe

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