Culture and Tourism Minister Mehmet Nuri Ersoy visited an exhibition at the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations in Ankara highlighting the Yalburt Spring sacred monument and archaeological research into the Hittite Empire.
The exhibition, titled "A Hittite King at Yalburt Spring," was organized in collaboration with the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations and the University of Illinois and curated by professor Ömür Harmanşah.
The exhibition focuses on a sacred water monument discovered in 1970 at Yalburt Plateau in the Ilgın district of Konya, central Türkiye. The monument contains blocks bearing hieroglyphic Luwian inscriptions and is attributed to Tudhaliya IV, a king of the Hittite Empire, who ruled from approximately 1245 to 1215 B.C.
Culture and Tourism Minister Mehmet Nuri Ersoy visits the “A Hittite King at the Spring of Yalburt” exhibition at the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, Ankara, Türkiye, Aug. 19, 2026. (AA Photo)
Ersoy said the exhibition offers visitors an opportunity to explore a significant part of the Hittite Empire's cultural legacy and follows the archaeological research surrounding the monument from its discovery to modern scientific documentation.
