Alacahöyük

Alacahöyük, 45 km southwest of Çorum, a very important cult (religious ceremony) and art center in the Old Bronze Age and Hittite Age. In Alacahöyük, there are four civilization ages that were uncovered; The Age of The First Civilization; is represented by Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Seljuk-Ottoman periods. On the first cultural floor, the mound was completely inhabited during the Late Phrygian Era. This floor of small houses, according to its ceramics, is no older than 650 BCE. The typical unfortified representative of the Hittite Imperial Age that is built on a plain, with its sanctuary, large buildings, private block houses, streets, great and small aqueducts, city wall, one of them sphinx decorated with embossed mid-stadiums, and the other with monumental gates with postern, forms the second cultural floor of the mound. Built with andesite blocks on a limestone foundation, the Sphinx Gate is 10 meters wide. The Alacahöyük third civilization floor is formed by the Old Bronze Age (2500-2000 BCE). Alacahöyük Old Bronze Age Dynasty Tombs, which contributed a lot to the enlightenment of the indigenous Hatti Civilization, which is the leading source of cultures that led to the Hittite culture, are the most important finds of this age.