Daily Life at Kültepe Ancient Kanesh

Kültepe, the ancient city of Kanesh near Kayseri, is Turkey’s
most important Bronze Age site and holds a unique place
in Near Eastern and Middle Eastern archaeology. Its 22,700
cuneiform tablets, mainly dating to the nineteenth century
BC, are recorded in UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register
and represent the first large group of private archives in
human history. Thanks to these texts, as well as the rich
archaeological discoveries made at Kültepe over the past
75 years, the authors of this book provide a vivid
reconstruction of the daily lives of its inhabitants four
thousand years ago.