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(15 Dec 1987) QUOTE REF TURKEY: About 10,000 Hittite tablets of cuneiform script
WTNEVM were sent to Germany 70 years ago, just before the
28.12.87 First World War, to be cleaned and returned to Turkey. The
LN126206 tablets were found at an excavation at Bogazkoy near the
ancient city of Hattusha, the capital of the Hittite empire.
They date back to 2000-1500 BC. According to specialists
the tablets include writings related to government affairs,
lives of Hittite Kings and Queens, and religious texts.
About 3,300 of these 10,000 Hittite tablets were returned to
Turkey in earlier years but the remaining bulk arrived in
Ankara recently after an agreement between Turkey and East
Germany. The tablets were transported from East Berlin in
sealed boxes and were opened in Ankara to be displayed at the
Museum of Anatolian Civilizations.
Date Shot: 15.12.87
KCS 625 WTN natsot 21.30mins
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SHOWS:
TURKEY VS arrival of sealed boxes at Ankara's Esenboga Airport;
Ankara customs officials control boxes and seals; CS address tags
on boxes; boxes being loaded onto trucks; VS trucks arrive
museum building; officials of the museum opening the boxes
and controlling the contents; CUs tablets in boxes;
tablets removed by an expert working for the museum; 16
boxes in the museum; VS tablets stacked in racks; expert
reading the cuneiform text and making notes; GV inside
museum, and Hittite section where tablets will be exhibited;
VS other artefacts in the museum from the Hittite
civilization; map of Turkey ZOOM on Bogazkoy where the
tablets were found; exterior shots of the Museum of
Anatolian Civilizations in Ankara.
NB: GOOD CSs OF INSCRIPTIONS ON STONES
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