Ancient Assyrian tablets, dictating social arrangements including women’s rights, dating back to 4,000 years have been excavated in the Central Anatolian province of Kayseri. (Photo courtesy: DHA)
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Friday,
17 July 2015
Ancient
Assyrian tablets, dictating social arrangements including women’s rights,
dating back to 4,000 years have been excavated in the Central Anatolian
province of Kayseri, a local
newspaper reported Thursday.
Prof.
Fikri Kulakoğlu of Ankara University told Doğan News Agency that the
Kultepe-Kanis-Karum trade colony site where the tablets were unearthed was
remarkable.
He
said the tablets revealed detailed information about the Assyrians, spanning
from commercial trade to the nitty-gritty of the local social life.
“From
women’s rights to the adoption of children and marriages arranged at birth, the
tablets include all kinds of civilizational and social data from Anatolia 4,000
years ago,” he said.
He
added: “There is also an emotional letter from a woman to her husband and a
letter from another woman who complains about her mother-in-law. You can’t find
such things in an empire’s official archive.”
However,
most of the 23,500 cuneiform tablets found were about commerce.
“Kultepe
is where the Anatolian enlightenment began. The people in this area were
literate much earlier than other places in Anatolia, including its west,” he
said.
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