Word: alishar
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Angora, capital of new Turkey, formed the base of the Hittite Expedition of the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute. From there to Alishar is a day's journey by train and horse. At Alishar, rare and well-preserved examples of Hittite culture were unearthed in a mound twelve layers deep, one dead city atop its dead predecessor. Out of the dusty ruins were dug instruments for which the diggers could find no obvious use. The peasants thereabout still living in a partly Stone Age condition solved the difficulties by exhibiting some of their own utensils of husbandry...
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