THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF ANCIENT TURKEY - Five thousand years ago goods from Syria, Mesopotamia and Egypt were exported to Anatolia in return for copper, bronze, silver, gold and occassionally iron. For a time the homeland of the Hittites, invaded in turn by the Phrygians, Assyrians, Cimmerians and Medians, Anatolia absorbed aspects of each successive culture. James Mellaart provides a fascinating picture of an area continuosly affected by neighbouring early civilisations in the Near East, and which produced not one, but several unique cultures of its own.

Condition: Good (ex-library) - Author: James Mellaart - Publisher: The Bodley Head - Pages: 111 - Hardback