Hatuşaş -- Boğazkale

The village lies 200 km east of Ankara off the highway to Samsun and is well worth visiting as the site of Hatuşaş, the Hittite capital. Hatuşaş was once a great and impressive city, well defended by stone walls over six km length. Today the ruins consist mostly of reconstructed foundations, walls and a few rock carvings, but there are several more interesting features. The first site you come to is the Büyük Mabed, or great temple of the storm god, a vast complex that's almost a town in itself, with its own water and draining system, storerooms and ritual altars. It dates from the 14th century BC and it seems to be destroyed in around 1200 BC. There is much more to see such as Sarı Kale, a fortress, Aslanı Kapı (Lion gate), Yer Kapı (Sphinx gate), a 70 metre tunnel beneath the walls, and Kral Kapı (King's gate).
Yazılı kaya is an other site just under three km from Boğazkale, it was always a naturalistic religious sanctuary open to the sky, but in later times monumental gateways and temple structures were built in front of the natural rock galleries. There are two natural rock galleries. In the large gallery, the low reliefs of numerous cone head gods and goddesses marching in procession indicate that this was the Hittites' holiest religious sanctuary.

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[Hekalcan]

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[vazgecilmezmisin]

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[TrKeDi]

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