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KERKENES

      Kerkenes is an Iron Age city built on a low mountaintop in Central Anatolia. It is very probably the place that Herodotus called Pteria, in which case it would have been founded by the Medes around 600 BC and used as the base from which they conducted the 5-year war with Lydia that ended at the Battle of the Eclipse in 585. Seven kilometres of strong stone defences, pierced by seven gates, enclose 2.5km2. The entire urban area was planned to include public buildings and urban blocks as well as a sophisticated system of water management. The city was then deliberately torched and the defences comprehensively slighted. According to Herodotus, the Pterians were enslaved by Croesus, King of Lydia, before the Battle of Pteria, fought between Cyrus the Great of Persia and the Lydians, in about 547. Later occupation was restricted to the Kale and the Kiremitlik. An international team has been working each summer since 1993 on the Kerkenes Dag, using new techniques to reveal the secrets of this ancient city.

Acknowledgements

      We are grateful to the General Directorate of Monuments and Museums, the Governor of Yozgat, Hüseyin Önal, the Yozgat Director of Culture, Selime Dogan, the Yozgat Museum Director, Erol Özen, the Sorgun District Governor and Mayor, Mustafa Dündar and Yilmaz Kiliçarslan, for their enthusiastic cooperation and support. We also thank the Yozgat Köy Hizmetleri, TEDAS and Telekom for continuing assistance. We are deeply indepted to the headman, Ali Erciyes, and people of Sahmuratli Village for extending traditional Anatolian hospitality. The Kerkenes Project is dependent on its patrons to all of whom we extend our appreciation. Particular thanks are due to the National Geographic Society for substantial long-term support for the Remote Sensing program.

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