Bronze Age
MÖ 3000 - 1200 · Troas and the Aegean world
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Covering MÖ 3000 - 1200, the Bronze Age dossier is a reading point within the long transformation of settlement, movement, production and belief networks across the Aegean. Troas and the Aegean world. Period boundaries are used to compare layers that changed at different speeds in different places, rather than to imply a clean historical break.
Records from the coast, valleys and inland areas are not reduced to one line of development. Region, place and narrative links are used to compare shared patterns with local differences.
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- From Herakleia Salbake Medical School to Medet Mound and Işıklı Lake Eumeneia: Surgical Reliefs, Bektashi Monastery, and Water Lily Sanctuary
- Lakes, Mounds, and Trade Routes of the Inland Aegean: From Beycesultan to Apameia and the Walls of Amorium
- Construction of the Karabel Luwian Pass King Tarkasnawa Border Monument (1250 BCE)
- From Seyitömer Bronze Age to Çakırsaz Han and Germiyan Tile Kilns: Ancient Loom Weights, Seljuk Hans, and UNESCO Tile Mansions
- From Mount Sipylus to the Karabel Luwian Pass: Akpınar Kybele, Niobe, and King Tarkasnawa
- From Urla Quarantine Island to Panaztepe Harbor and Mount Nif: 1865 Steam Station, 2500 BCE Bronze Harbor, and Ancient Metallurgy