Kültepe (Turkish: Ash Hill) is an archaeological site located in
Kayseri Province in
Turkey. The nearest modern city to Kültepe is
Kayseri, about 20 km southwest. It consists of a
tell, the actual Kültepe, and a lower town where an
Assyrian settlement was found. Its name in
Assyrian texts from the 20th century BC was
Kaneš (spoken:
Kah nesh), the later
Hittites mostly called it
Neša, occasionally
Anisa.