🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Kültepe – Kanesh (Karum Kaneš)
Early to Middle Bronze Age (Assyrian Colony Age) · Anatolian Hattian/ Hittite + Old Assyrian merchants
Double city: 21 m Anatolian upper town Kanesh + lower Karum Assyrian merchant colony (c.2100–1700 BCE) with 23,500 Old Assyrian cuneiform tablets — largest private archive of Bronze Age.