Since the time of the Bible, the land and peoples of Anatolia have played a major part in the history of civilizations. Anatolia has been a trail-blazing country in the history of mankind, right from the dawn of time. Some of the earliest towns ever established existed on its soil.

     Writing was first employed in Anatolia in the days of the city-states. Thousands of Assyrian cuneiform tablets have been found in the Assyrian colony of Kültepe, which throw light on many contemporary matters.

     When Western travelers first discovered the immense ruins of Boğazköy in the 19th century, they seemed at the first to be a complete puzzle. The memory of the Hittites had not perished completely there was after all a famous reference in the Old Testament to "Uriel the Hittite".

     The unique art of the Hittites developed from a happy cross-fertilization of the cultures of the indigenous Hattic and immigrant Indo-European peoples.

     The Phrygians about 1250 B.C. another onset of invasions began and the civilizations of the Hittites and their neighbors the Mycenaean Greeks were destroyed so thoroughly that, as we have seen, all memory of them was lost until modern times. In Central Asia Minor, the Phrygians created a great civilization, which belonged essentially to the Greek sphere but was also strongly influenced by the Neo-Hittites and Urartians. We shall take you into the depth of the Phrygian Highlands within the provinces of the Eskişehir, Afyon and Kütahya triangular.


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Tour dates: 04 - 17 June 2007 02 - 15 July 2007 30 July - 12 August 2007

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