Pottery from Hacilar, Southwestern Turkey (6000-5700 BC).
http://users.stlcc.edu/mfuller/hacilar.html
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Map of the Hittite Empire at its greatest extent under Suppiluliuma I(c. 1350–1322 BCE) and Mursili II (c. 1321–1295 BCE).
"Reconstruction by R. Koldewey of the main city gate of Iron Age Zincirli."
"An inscription of Kulamuwa, king of Sam'al, which is dated ca. 830 BCE. This is the oldest Sam'alian royal inscription ever found. It was written in Phoenician rather than the local Sam'alian language."
From an illustrated surgical codex by the Byzantine physician, Nicetas. About 900 C.E
Gold necklace, late bronze age, about 14th-13th centuries BC. Probably from western modern Turkey
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Hittites: Altar with hieroglyphs, Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, Ankara.