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Orlando the Adventurer pulled a Scimitar from beneath his Robes and smiled...

Sunday 10 January 2021

Google Archaeology: Meanwhile on an escarpment near Hattusa...

 

The large structure looks like a medieval fortress or part of a Bronze Age city palace, but that circle... 










A fifty foot diameter roundhouse with central firepit?

Apart from the pile of rocks at the bottom of the cliff below it that look like a giant statue fell off the cliff from where the roundhouse is located I would say yes.


If Hattusa is originally a mountain (tu) with ducks and geese (sa) then the roundhouse makes sense, and whoever lived there enjoyed a high protien diet with eggs, duck and geese meat at least until the climate changed.

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