KAYSERİ, TURKEY—According to a Hürriyet Daily News report, three documents describing a local cheese have been uncovered at the site of Kültepe-Kaniş-Karum in central Anatolia. “It is understood from the tablets that there was a cheese called ‘Kültepe Cheese’ in the region 4,000 years ago,” said Fikri Kulakoğlu of Ankara University. The Assyrian documents also indicate that people carried the cheese with them while traveling, Kulakoğlu explained. For more on the many thousands of cuneiform tablets that have been uncovered at Kültepe, go to "Assyrian Women of Letters."
4,000-Year-Old Assyrian Documents Describe Local Cheese
News July 18, 2024
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