Some great stuff turns up alongside maps in old books about Turkey. Hats, prayers, Hittites and buffalo after the jump - all courtesy of the American Research Institute's excellent library in Arnavutkoy.
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| a full and authentic account of a recent journey... By A. Locher |
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| I still love Resat Ekrem Kocu even though Orhan Pamuk does too |
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| from Caravan: the Story of the Middle East |
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| the Hittite Syllabary |
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The Pigs and the Buffalo are from Locher's Star and Crescent, the Kocu drawing is from Turk Giyim, Kusam ve Suslenme Sozlugu. The prayers are from Carleton Coon's Caravan: the Story of the Middle East and the Hittite alphabet is from the British Archeological Institute journal, Anatolian Studies, 1951.
