Catal Huyuk City

[Guest]

The ancient city called Catal Huyuk in south-central Turkey was the Hittite (Hethite) capital of that dominant empire just to the north of the land of the Canaan, and Catal Huyuk is composed of massive walls reminiscent of those at Mycenae, with temples for bull and sun worship, and a sophisticated infrastructure, very sophisticated when you consider that city is supposedly from 8000 B.C., so how did they attain that level of building sophistication some 5,000 years before such building sophistication is commonly thought to have been achieved?

[marduk]

err sounds like you should actually study the place before making completely erroneous statements about its features Jim

or did you get the description from Herodotus

[Guest]

No, site reports.

[marduk]

and they said that it was the Hittite capital did they
and that it had massive walls did they
and that it was a city did they
and that it had temples did they

Jim this is astounding news that will rock the archaeological world
i've just one question
can you prove it ?

[Guest]

Calm down Marduk, check-out http://www.MarlaMallett.com/ch.htm to see the cultural sophistication at ancient Catal Huyuk.

I mistook nearby Hattusas for Catal Huyuk regarding the megalithic walls, but google Lion's Gate Hattusas to see those walls, same Hittite culture, bull and lion and sun worship, just like many of the other 2000 B.C. vintage civilizations.

[Guest]

It's noteworthy that much of the artwork on the walls at Catal Huyuk looks like the artwork of the "cave-men" of France and Spain who supposedly lived about 30,000 years ago.

[Guest]

That area of Catal Huyuk and Hattusas sure is dry and barren looking, I wonder how much more rainfall was there when the Hittite empire was flourishing circa 2000 B.C.?

[Guest]

Check-out the Hittite megalithic ruins at http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/turkey/, see the megalithic Sphinx Gate and Lion's Gate, looks like a cross between Mycenaean and Egyptian cultures, not surprising since Heth was a son of Canaan.

[Guest]

http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/turkey/

[Minimalist]

http://www.crystalinks.com/hittites.html

The Hittite kingdom, which at its height controlled central Anatolia, north-western Syria down to Ugarit, and Mesopotamia down to Babylon, lasted from roughly 1680 BC to about 1180 BC. After 1180 BC, the Hittite polity disintegrated into several independent city-states, some of which survived as late as around 700 BC.

Catal Huyuk started over 5,000 years earlier.

[marduk]

AROOGA AROOGA
Crystal links alert

disregard any claimed factual content of previous message

[Tech]

Not the advanced city you claim , but still very interesting

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%87atalh%C3%B6y%C3%BCk

[gunny]

Scientific American March 28, 2005 has extensive piece on the city.

[Guest]

Hey min, many professional archaeologists say that the origin of Catal Huyuk goes back 7,000 years (not your 5,000 years) before the flourishing of the Hittites at circa 1600 B.C., so why do you fall 2,000 years short of what many of the pros say, and what was going on there for 7,000 years, did it take them that long to draw up the plans for the city?

[marduk]

once again Jim
it wasn't a city
it was a town