Acemhöyük
The famous Assyrian city of Purushhattum, which is mentioned in Akkadian and Hittite inscriptions, today's Acemhöyük, is known as the most popular mining production center in Anatolia four thousand years ago.
Acemhöyük is one of the largest mounds in Anatolia. As a result of the excavations, the presence of at least 12 floors belonging to the Old Bronze and Assyrian Trade Colonies Ages was found in the mound. While the city developed gradually from 2500 BC, it lived its heyday in the Age of Assyrian Trade Colonies. A fierce fire, the cause of which is unknown today, engulfed the entire city in the eighteenth century BC and put an end to this bright period. While the city was rebuilt twice more by the survivors of this disaster, it was completely abandoned in the seventeenth century BC. After a long interval, the last settlements concentrated on the western and southern elevations of the mound, starting from the sixth century BC, continued until the beginning of the Roman Period.
