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184 Royal Tablets Reveal a Hittite Kingdom in Crisis

At Kayalıpınar in central Turkey, archaeologists have now recovered 184 clay tablets from a 3,400-year-old Hittite royal archive. They describe an epidemic, a baby princess who died, and generals begging the king for help.

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