Yazilikaya
Yazilikaya ( Türkçe inscribed rock) is a Hittite holy place near Boğazköy, Turkey.
Findings prove the site to be settled since the 3rd millennium B.C.. Yazilikaya is first described in an Assyrian text mentioning a town named Hattush, founded around 1900 BC by the Hati culture. Some time during the 17th century BC, the Hitties took over the area and merged with the Hati. Hattush became Hattusha, the capital of a noticeable empire of the magnitude of Egypt and Mesopotamia.
The city was lost under unknown circumstances around 1200 BC, and rediscovered in 1909 by archeaologists, unearthing ruins and a library with clay tablets.
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