Kültepe, the ancient city of Kanesh near Kayseri, is Turkey’s mostimportant Bronze Age site and holds a unique place in Near Eastern andMiddle Eastern archaeology. Its 22,700 cuneiform tablets, mainly datingto the nineteenth century BC, are recorded in UNESCO’s Memory of theWorld Register and represent the first large group of private archives inhuman history. Thanks to these texts, as well as the rich archaeologicaldiscoveries made at Kültepe over the past 75 years, the authors of thisbook provide a vivid reconstruction of the daily lives of its inhabitants fourthousand years ago.
