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Arslantepe Mound, one of the largest mounds in Turkiye, is a multi-layered site located east of Malatya near the Euphrates River, rising to a height of about 30 meters. The earliest traces of settlement date back to 5000 BC, and the area was continuously inhabited from the Chalcolithic Age through the Byzantine period. Notably, during the 4th millennium BC, the mound served as a center of advanced administrative and social organization. The mudbrick palace complex from this era contains evidence

Alacahöyük is an important archaeological site and ancient settlement located in the Alaca district of Çorum province in Turkiye. Known as one of the significant religious and cultural centers of the Hittites, this ancient settlement possesses four cultural layers, whose history reaches back to the Late Chalcolithic Age, from five thousand five hundred to three thousand years before the Common Era.Excavations carried out in the area uncovered royal tombs, monumental structures, and various archa