Tablet, Corum Bogazkoy Museum, Bogazkale, Turkey
Tablet with embossed script, documenting the epic of Gilgamesh, in Babylonian, 1400 BC, Hittite, Old Kingdom, in Corum Bogazkoy Museum, housing finds from Hattusa archaeological site, in Bogazkale, Corum, Anatolia, Turkey. Hattusa was the capital of the Hittite empire, built in the late Bronze Age from c. 1650 BC, on an older Chalcolithic settlement founded 6th millennium BC. It is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
Picture No
50897586
Media ID
50897586
Size
7087px x 5060px
(5.6MB)
Credit
Manuel Cohen / Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Photograph by Manuel Cohen
Date
2026
