Bogazköy Archive


The Bogazkoy archives are a collection of texts found on the site of the capital of the Hittite state, the city of Hattusas. They are the oldest extant documents of the state, and they are believed to have been created in the 2nd millennium. The archive contains approximately 25,000 tablets.

Content

The archive contains royal annals, treaties, political correspondence, legal, texts, inventory texts, along with the instructions texts related with the administration, mythological texts, and religious text.

Language

Most tablets were found to be written in the Hittite language. However, some of the tablets are written in Hurrian, and a few paragraphs of the tablets are written in Hattic. Akkadian is also a common language, though it is mashed with Hurrian and Hittite. Another language found in the texts is Assyrian.

Discovery

The discovery of the Bogazkoy Archives occurred in 1906, when Hugo Winckler and Theodore Makridi discovered the archive.

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