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Alacahöyük

Çorum · Historic Sites

Miniature relief of Alacahöyük
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An excavation that began in 1935 in a small village in Çorum was the young Republic reaching out with its own hands to touch the memory of its own soil. Led by Remzi Oğuz Arık and Hamit Zübeyr Koşay, the Alacahöyük excavations went down in history as among the first carried out by Turkish archaeologists; Atatürk is known to have followed them closely… So what had come out from beneath the earth?

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