Coordinates: 39°36′22″N 35°15′41″E / 39.60611°N 35.26139°E Alishar Hüyük (in modern Yozgat Province, Turkey) was an ancient Near Eastern city. It is near the modern village of Alisar.
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Alishar Hüyük was occupied beginning in the Chalcolithic Period, through the Bronze Age and the Hittite Empire, and into Phyrgian times. A number of Hittite era cuneiform tablets in Old Assyrian of the Cappadocia type were found there. [1] Mention in those tablets of the town Amkuwa has caused speculation that the site is the Ankuwa mentioned in other Hittite texts.
The site was excavated between 1927 and 1932 by a team from the Oriental Institute of Chicago. The work was led by Erich Schmidt. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] Excavation resumed in 1992, led by Ronald Gorny as part of the Alisar Regional Project, though most of the work has been at nearby Çadır Höyük. [9] [10]
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