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2.01 2025-01-14 Added General Information page and reorganized List of Inscription; visual changes to the home page and header; added İnsuyu, new items under Maraş (73, 74, 75, 76, 77) and Palanga; image and info updates under Göllüdağ, Karahöyük; image updates under ALACAHÖYÜK 2, BOĞAZKÖY 7, KARKAMIŠ A11b+c, Kayseri, Maraş, Sakçagözü; declassified Beyköy as a rock monument; renamed Torbalı to Karakuyu-Torbalı; minor info updates under BOĞAZKÖY 16, Karakuyu-Torbali, Karatepe, Karkamış, KARKAMIŠ A31+, Kocaoğuz, Maraş (16, 17), Sirkeli, Tell Tayinat.
2.00 2024-04-11 Improved the website for ease of view by mobile devices; added photoswipe feature for most of the images; added headers and footers for all pages; added references to J. D. Hawkins' CHLI v.3; added Hunu, Karaçay (both are removed from under Maraş), Erzin; renamed Suratkaya to Latmos and İSTANBUL 2 to EREĞLİ 2; added details pages to ALEPPO 1, all Boğazköy inscriptions, some items under Maraş and Hama; info and image updates under Boğazköy, Karabel and Türkmenkarahöyük; image updates under Emirgazi, Gemerek, Izgın, Köylütolu, Latmos, Malkaya, Torbalı.
1.80 2024-02-18 Added Dokuztay, Karamelik (removed from under Gaziantep), ALEPPO 7 and a detail page for ALEPPO 6; deleted Ermenek; changed Taçın from Empire to Neo-Hittite period; changed Göstesin to a rock-monument; renamed Türkmenkarahöyük (from Türkmen-Karahöyük); added or updated some images under Arslan Tash, Arsuz, Çineköy, Eflatunpınar, Emirgazi, Fasıllar, İSKENDERUN, KARKAMIŠ A1b, Kızıldağ, Köylütolu, MALATYA 4, MARAŞ 4, MARAŞ 7, Niğde; Yazılıkaya; added inscription copies under BOHÇA, CEKKE, ÇALAPVERDI 4, EĞREK, GAZİANTEP 1, GEMEREK, İSTANBUL 2, KARABURUN, KARAÖREN 1, several Karkamış inscriptions, KURUBEL, MALKAYA, MARAŞ 13, MARAŞ 16, Ördekburnu, PANCARLI, TELL TAYİNAT 2, TÜRKMENKARAHÖYÜK; minor info/reference/design updates under Aleppo, Akpınar, Arslantaş, BABYLON 2, BABYLON 3, Beyköy, Boybeypınarı, Cekke, multiple pages under Karkamış, Kelekli, Körkün, MALATYA 4, MARAŞ 11, Sefalı, Sevdili, Suratkaya, Şırzı, Tünp, Tell Ahmar
1.79 2023-05-21 Under Boğazköy added a plan and some images of the Great Temple, and new images of BOĞAZKÖY 14; updated the images of Göstesin; some updates under Gavurkale; minor updates under Maraş and MARAŞ 16; updated the site plan for Karkamış; in various pages removed references to the translation of the word tarwani as "ruler".
1.78 2023-01-15 Added Nişantaş page, some maps and images page under Boğazköy; added and updated several items under Karkamış; updated images and info under Beyköy; updated numerous images from Ankara Museum under Karkamış, Alacahöyük, Sultanhanı and Maraş; minor updates in Kelekli and Çineköy.
1.77 2022-09-09 Added List of Abbreviatations page.
1.76 2022-08-28 Reorganized and updated Arslantepe; new images for Boybeypınarı, Çalapverdi, Havuzköy, Karadağ, Sakçagözü, Tell Ahmar frags, and some of the Maraş steles; image and minor info updates for several items under Karkamış; minor info updates under Cekke, Darende, Gürün, Hama, İspekçür, İvriz, Karahöyük, Karatepe, Kötükale, Kızıldağ, Tell Tayinat, Türkmenkarahöyük, minor updates in the list of HL inscriptions.
1.75 2022-01-24 Reorganized Ancoz, Samsat, Arsuz; reorganized Karatepe with gate plans, several new images and KARATEPE 2–4; added KULULU 6–8, BABYLON 3 under Aleppo, ARSLANTAŞ 2 under Arslan Tash, İVRİZ fragments 1–4, TELL AHMAR 3 and 4, MARAŞ 6 and 10; added ALEPPO 3, GELB, BOROWSKI 2, and BEIRUT under Karkamış; some new images under Domuztepe, Adıyaman, Tell Tayinat, Tell Açana, Darende; satellite image under Zincirli; minor updates under Gaziantep, Maraş, Keben.
1.74 2021-10-27 Added Gürçay; added inscription info pages for AIN DARA 1, 2(?), 3(?), ADANA 1; ALACAHÖYÜK 1, 2, 3, BOĞAZKÖY 13, BOĞAZKÖY 14, KARKAMIŠ A13a-c, YESEMEK; changed Yesemek from Neo-Hittite to Empire period; info and image updates under Alacahöyük, Karaören, Karkamış, Kayalıpınar, Kululu, Kuşçu-Boyacı, Yesemek; new images for ALEPPO 1, ÇALAPVERDİ 4 and under Hatip and Kurubel; minor info updates under İvriz, Kültepe, and Germiş.
1.73 2021-03-07 Updated Hama and Tell Ahmar with info, site maps, and portal lions; added site maps and updated info under Tell Açana; added images for BOĞAZKÖY 25, BOĞAZKÖY 27, Atabey and under Maraş; added MARAŞ 3; added a statue base under Gaziantep; minor updates under Alacahöyük.
1.72 2021-01-09 Reorganized Ain Dara, Alacahöyük, and Karatepe with new images. New images under Karkamış and Köylütolu.
1.71 2020-12-18 Sitewide corrections on format and language; separated Gerçin and Ördekburnu from Zincirli; image and info updates under Zincirli and Kuşçu-Boyacı.
1.70 2020-11-30 Added Ankara; new image and info updates under Beyköy, Eflatunpınar, Sakçagözü, Yesemek; info updates under Çağdın, Köylütolu, Samsat; swapped numbers of BOGAZKOY 1 and 2 to match the commonly accepted order; drawing update for MALATYA 1; some literature updates under Andaval, Türkmenkarahöyük; minor corrections on images under Karatepe.
1.69 2020-03-06 Added Türkmen-Karahöyük; some info updates under Kızıldağ, Karadağ, Burunkaya, Sirkeli; added info and images of Zilfe lion under Sıkızlar; some image updates under Tell Ahmar, Arslan Tash, Kültepe, Erkilet, Tekirderbent, Eğriköy, Kululu, Çiftlik, Kurubel, Göllüdağ.
1.68 2019-10-22 Updated Gaziantep and Asmacık; added Atabey, Aydınkaya, Kayabaşı, Dokurcun; some additions under Sakçagözü; updated some images in Islahiye, Örtülü, Tilsevet, Karkamış (Yunus), Maraş; marked Sevdili on the map; minor updates under Zincirli.
1.67 2019-10-03 Minor info update in Kuşçu-Boyacı; new images and minor info updates in Yalburt, Taşçı, Hanyeri, Sirkeli; new images in Cebelireis, İvriz, Keben, Hemite, Tanır, Göllüdağ, Topada, Aksaray, İncirli.
1.66 2019-08-02 Added Karaören; some new images and minor info updates in Eflatunpınar and Ortaköy; image updates in Tekirderbent and Erkilet; minor info updates in Karabel, Beyköy, Köylütolu, Yalburt, Hatip, Akpınar, İncirli; format updates in Kocaoğuz, Yağrı, Fasıllar, Kızıldağ, Suratkaya, Torbalı, Keben, Hanyeri, Karadağ, Malkaya, Gavurkalesi.
1.65 2019-07-12 Added Dülük Baba, Ereğli, İstanbul, Kâhta, Kırık Bayır, Külaflı, Sıkızlar, and Urfa; renamed Akçakale to Şekerli and corrected the location on the map; updated and reorganized Tell Tayinat; updates in Sefalı; updates and fine tuning of map locations of Haçgöz, Gölpınar, Kabahaydar; minor updates in İvriz, Karga, Boğazköy, Karkamış, Yesemek, Gavurkale.
1.64 2019-06-10 Added Tavşantepe; some new images under Göstesin and Palanga; updated Keşlik Yayla and corrected the location on the map; minor updates in Eğriköy and Çiftlik and swapped their mismatched locations on the map; minor updates under Arslantepe and Göllüdağ; minor format updates in Aksaray, Andaval, Bahçeköy, Bulunkaya, Darende, Eğrek, Erkilet, Fraktin, Gemerek, Gökbez, Gözecik, Gürün, Karaburna, Kayalıpınar, Kululu, Niğde, Kayseri, Palanga, Sivasa, Sultanhanı, Taşçı, Tekirderbent.
1.63 2019-04-05 Reorganized Yazılıkaya with new pictures; added Yekbas under Yazılıkaya; minor corrections under Izgın and Arslantepe.
1.62 2019-01-22 Added Kuşçu-Boyacı, Derbent, İncirli, Hasanbeyli, Cebelireis, an image of Çalapverdi 3; minor updates in Çalapverdi and Çineköy.
1.61 2018-12-18 Updated Boğazköy and added Taçın. Added a list of monumental hieroglyphic Luwian inscriptions. Some new images in Aleppo, Emirgazi, and Arslan Tash. Minor updates in Çalapverdi, Karatepe, Karkamış, Tell Ahmar.
1.60 2018-11-16 Main page is updated with a new map and new filters for the map.
Updates in Savcılı; new images under Adıyaman, Tanır, Hanyeri, Hemite, Topada, literature added under Kelekli and Tell Atchana. Names of Gezbeli and Afyon have been changed to more scholarly established Hanyeri and Kocaoğuz respectively.
1.56 2018-11-02 Added Germiş and Yumurtalık. Updates and new items under Islahiye, Maraş, Karkamış, Arslantepe. Changes in Main index format.
Minor text and literature updates under Arslan Tash, Söğütlü, Örtülü, Gözlühöyük, Karakuyu, Çineköy, Gaziantep, Zincirli, Sefalı.
1.55 2018-10-05 Updates in Göllüdağ; addition of references, enlarged icon images, and minor data updates in Gezbeli, Hemite, Havuzköy, Hisarcık, İmamkulu, İspekçür, İvriz, Izgın, Karahöyük, Karatepe, Karga, Kırçoğlu, Kötükale, Kurubel.
1.54 2018-09-19 Updated Arslan Tash; minor updates in Domuztepe (literature and better images), Karkamış (Kubaba stele), Zincirli (image of a sphinx), Arslantaş (better images), Malpınarı (literature); minor corrections in Cekke, Maraş, Bulgarmaden, Gaziantep, Hatip, Altınyayla, Karabel.
1.53 2018-04-24 Added an image of a stele fragment from Alacahöyük dam.
1.52 2018-03-09 Updated a few images in Alacahöyük; minor update in Ain Dara.
1.51 2018-02-23 Reorganized Tell Ahmar page; removed incorrect image from Tell Halaf.
1.50 2018-02-16 Reorganized Zincirli page.
1.49 2018-02-15 Removed a couple of incorrectly labeled images from Yesemek.
1.48 2018-01-15 Addition of new sites (to the lists, but not to the map): Şaraga, Akçakale, Pancarlı, Sefalı, Qalat el Mudiq, Tall Šṭīb, Söğütlü, Azaz, Çolaklı, Islahiye, Elbistan, Hacıbebekli, Jisr el Hadid, Delihasanlı, Kültepe.
Revisions in Körkün, Gözlühöyük, Maraş, Tünp, Karkamış, Tilsevet, Gölpınar, Kabahaydar, Sakçagözü, Hama, Restan, Torbalı, Suratkaya, Samsat, Adıyaman, Tuleil, Tell Tayinat, Göstesin.

HOME PAGE Version History
Version	Date	Changes
2.01	2025-01-14	Added General Information page and reorganized List of Inscription; visual changes to the home page and header; added İnsuyu, new items under Maraş (73, 74, 75, 76, 77) and Palanga; image and info updates under Göllüdağ, Karahöyük; image updates under ALACAHÖYÜK 2, BOĞAZKÖY 7, KARKAMIŠ A11b+c, Kayseri, Maraş, Sakçagözü; declassified Beyköy as a rock monument; renamed Torbalı to Karakuyu-Torbalı; minor info updates under BOĞAZKÖY 16, Karakuyu-Torbali, Karatepe, Karkamış, KARKAMIŠ A31+, Kocaoğuz, Maraş (16, 17), Sirkeli, Tell Tayinat.
2.00	2024-04-11	Improved the website for ease of view by mobile devices; added photoswipe feature for most of the images; added headers and footers for all pages; added references to J. D. Hawkins' CHLI v.3; added Hunu, Karaçay (both are removed from under Maraş), Erzin; renamed Suratkaya to Latmos and İSTANBUL 2 to EREĞLİ 2; added details pages to ALEPPO 1, all Boğazköy inscriptions, some items under Maraş and Hama; info and image updates under Boğazköy, Karabel and Türkmenkarahöyük; image updates under Emirgazi, Gemerek, Izgın, Köylütolu, Latmos, Malkaya, Torbalı.
1.80	2024-02-18	Added Dokuztay, Karamelik (removed from under Gaziantep), ALEPPO 7 and a detail page for ALEPPO 6; deleted Ermenek; changed Taçın from Empire to Neo-Hittite period; changed Göstesin to a rock-monument; renamed Türkmenkarahöyük (from Türkmen-Karahöyük); added or updated some images under Arslan Tash, Arsuz, Çineköy, Eflatunpınar, Emirgazi, Fasıllar, İSKENDERUN, KARKAMIŠ A1b, Kızıldağ, Köylütolu, MALATYA 4, MARAŞ 4, MARAŞ 7, Niğde; Yazılıkaya; added inscription copies under BOHÇA, CEKKE, ÇALAPVERDI 4, EĞREK, GAZİANTEP 1, GEMEREK, İSTANBUL 2, KARABURUN, KARAÖREN 1, several Karkamış inscriptions, KURUBEL, MALKAYA, MARAŞ 13, MARAŞ 16, Ördekburnu, PANCARLI, TELL TAYİNAT 2, TÜRKMENKARAHÖYÜK; minor info/reference/design updates under Aleppo, Akpınar, Arslantaş, BABYLON 2, BABYLON 3, Beyköy, Boybeypınarı, Cekke, multiple pages under Karkamış, Kelekli, Körkün, MALATYA 4, MARAŞ 11, Sefalı, Sevdili, Suratkaya, Şırzı, Tünp, Tell Ahmar
1.79	2023-05-21	Under Boğazköy added a plan and some images of the Great Temple, and new images of BOĞAZKÖY 14; updated the images of Göstesin; some updates under Gavurkale; minor updates under Maraş and MARAŞ 16; updated the site plan for Karkamış; in various pages removed references to the translation of the word tarwani as "ruler".
1.78	2023-01-15	Added Nişantaş page, some maps and images page under Boğazköy; added and updated several items under Karkamış; updated images and info under Beyköy; updated numerous images from Ankara Museum under Karkamış, Alacahöyük, Sultanhanı and Maraş; minor updates in Kelekli and Çineköy.
1.77	2022-09-09	Added List of Abbreviatations page.
1.76	2022-08-28	Reorganized and updated Arslantepe; new images for Boybeypınarı, Çalapverdi, Havuzköy, Karadağ, Sakçagözü, Tell Ahmar frags, and some of the Maraş steles; image and minor info updates for several items under Karkamış; minor info updates under Cekke, Darende, Gürün, Hama, İspekçür, İvriz, Karahöyük, Karatepe, Kötükale, Kızıldağ, Tell Tayinat, Türkmenkarahöyük, minor updates in the list of HL inscriptions.
1.75	2022-01-24	Reorganized Ancoz, Samsat, Arsuz; reorganized Karatepe with gate plans, several new images and KARATEPE 2–4; added KULULU 6–8, BABYLON 3 under Aleppo, ARSLANTAŞ 2 under Arslan Tash, İVRİZ fragments 1–4, TELL AHMAR 3 and 4, MARAŞ 6 and 10; added ALEPPO 3, GELB, BOROWSKI 2, and BEIRUT under Karkamış; some new images under Domuztepe, Adıyaman, Tell Tayinat, Tell Açana, Darende; satellite image under Zincirli; minor updates under Gaziantep, Maraş, Keben.
1.74	2021-10-27	Added Gürçay; added inscription info pages for AIN DARA 1, 2(?), 3(?), ADANA 1; ALACAHÖYÜK 1, 2, 3, BOĞAZKÖY 13, BOĞAZKÖY 14, KARKAMIŠ A13a-c, YESEMEK; changed Yesemek from Neo-Hittite to Empire period; info and image updates under Alacahöyük, Karaören, Karkamış, Kayalıpınar, Kululu, Kuşçu-Boyacı, Yesemek; new images for ALEPPO 1, ÇALAPVERDİ 4 and under Hatip and Kurubel; minor info updates under İvriz, Kültepe, and Germiş.
1.73	2021-03-07	Updated Hama and Tell Ahmar with info, site maps, and portal lions; added site maps and updated info under Tell Açana; added images for BOĞAZKÖY 25, BOĞAZKÖY 27, Atabey and under Maraş; added MARAŞ 3; added a statue base under Gaziantep; minor updates under Alacahöyük.
1.72	2021-01-09	Reorganized Ain Dara, Alacahöyük, and Karatepe with new images. New images under Karkamış and Köylütolu.
1.71	2020-12-18	Sitewide corrections on format and language; separated Gerçin and Ördekburnu from Zincirli; image and info updates under Zincirli and Kuşçu-Boyacı.
1.70	2020-11-30	Added Ankara; new image and info updates under Beyköy, Eflatunpınar, Sakçagözü, Yesemek; info updates under Çağdın, Köylütolu, Samsat; swapped numbers of BOGAZKOY 1 and 2 to match the commonly accepted order; drawing update for MALATYA 1; some literature updates under Andaval, Türkmenkarahöyük; minor corrections on images under Karatepe.
1.69	2020-03-06	Added Türkmen-Karahöyük; some info updates under Kızıldağ, Karadağ, Burunkaya, Sirkeli; added info and images of Zilfe lion under Sıkızlar; some image updates under Tell Ahmar, Arslan Tash, Kültepe, Erkilet, Tekirderbent, Eğriköy, Kululu, Çiftlik, Kurubel, Göllüdağ.
1.68	2019-10-22	Updated Gaziantep and Asmacık; added Atabey, Aydınkaya, Kayabaşı, Dokurcun; some additions under Sakçagözü; updated some images in Islahiye, Örtülü, Tilsevet, Karkamış (Yunus), Maraş; marked Sevdili on the map; minor updates under Zincirli.
1.67	2019-10-03	Minor info update in Kuşçu-Boyacı; new images and minor info updates in Yalburt, Taşçı, Hanyeri, Sirkeli; new images in Cebelireis, İvriz, Keben, Hemite, Tanır, Göllüdağ, Topada, Aksaray, İncirli.
1.66	2019-08-02	Added Karaören; some new images and minor info updates in Eflatunpınar and Ortaköy; image updates in Tekirderbent and Erkilet; minor info updates in Karabel, Beyköy, Köylütolu, Yalburt, Hatip, Akpınar, İncirli; format updates in Kocaoğuz, Yağrı, Fasıllar, Kızıldağ, Suratkaya, Torbalı, Keben, Hanyeri, Karadağ, Malkaya, Gavurkalesi.
1.65	2019-07-12	Added Dülük Baba, Ereğli, İstanbul, Kâhta, Kırık Bayır, Külaflı, Sıkızlar, and Urfa; renamed Akçakale to Şekerli and corrected the location on the map; updated and reorganized Tell Tayinat; updates in Sefalı; updates and fine tuning of map locations of Haçgöz, Gölpınar, Kabahaydar; minor updates in İvriz, Karga, Boğazköy, Karkamış, Yesemek, Gavurkale.
1.64	2019-06-10	Added Tavşantepe; some new images under Göstesin and Palanga; updated Keşlik Yayla and corrected the location on the map; minor updates in Eğriköy and Çiftlik and swapped their mismatched locations on the map; minor updates under Arslantepe and Göllüdağ; minor format updates in Aksaray, Andaval, Bahçeköy, Bulunkaya, Darende, Eğrek, Erkilet, Fraktin, Gemerek, Gökbez, Gözecik, Gürün, Karaburna, Kayalıpınar, Kululu, Niğde, Kayseri, Palanga, Sivasa, Sultanhanı, Taşçı, Tekirderbent.
1.63	2019-04-05	Reorganized Yazılıkaya with new pictures; added Yekbas under Yazılıkaya; minor corrections under Izgın and Arslantepe.
1.62	2019-01-22	Added Kuşçu-Boyacı, Derbent, İncirli, Hasanbeyli, Cebelireis, an image of Çalapverdi 3; minor updates in Çalapverdi and Çineköy.
1.61	2018-12-18	Updated Boğazköy and added Taçın. Added a list of monumental hieroglyphic Luwian inscriptions. Some new images in Aleppo, Emirgazi, and Arslan Tash. Minor updates in Çalapverdi, Karatepe, Karkamış, Tell Ahmar.
1.60	2018-11-16	Main page is updated with a new map and new filters for the map. Updates in Savcılı; new images under Adıyaman, Tanır, Hanyeri, Hemite, Topada, literature added under Kelekli and Tell Atchana. Names of Gezbeli and Afyon have been changed to more scholarly established Hanyeri and Kocaoğuz respectively.
1.56	2018-11-02	Added Germiş and Yumurtalık. Updates and new items under Islahiye, Maraş, Karkamış, Arslantepe. Changes in Main index format. Minor text and literature updates under Arslan Tash, Söğütlü, Örtülü, Gözlühöyük, Karakuyu, Çineköy, Gaziantep, Zincirli, Sefalı.
1.55	2018-10-05	Updates in Göllüdağ; addition of references, enlarged icon images, and minor data updates in Gezbeli, Hemite, Havuzköy, Hisarcık, İmamkulu, İspekçür, İvriz, Izgın, Karahöyük, Karatepe, Karga, Kırçoğlu, Kötükale, Kurubel.
1.54	2018-09-19	Updated Arslan Tash; minor updates in Domuztepe (literature and better images), Karkamış (Kubaba stele), Zincirli (image of a sphinx), Arslantaş (better images), Malpınarı (literature); minor corrections in Cekke, Maraş, Bulgarmaden, Gaziantep, Hatip, Altınyayla, Karabel.
1.53	2018-04-24	Added an image of a stele fragment from Alacahöyük dam.
1.52	2018-03-09	Updated a few images in Alacahöyük; minor update in Ain Dara.
1.51	2018-02-23	Reorganized Tell Ahmar page; removed incorrect image from Tell Halaf.
1.50	2018-02-16	Reorganized Zincirli page.
1.49	2018-02-15	Removed a couple of incorrectly labeled images from Yesemek.
1.48	2018-01-15	Addition of new sites (to the lists, but not to the map): Şaraga, Akçakale, Pancarlı, Sefalı, Qalat el Mudiq, Tall Šṭīb, Söğütlü, Azaz, Çolaklı, Islahiye, Elbistan, Hacıbebekli, Jisr el Hadid, Delihasanlı, Kültepe. Revisions in Körkün, Gözlühöyük, Maraş, Tünp, Karkamış, Tilsevet, Gölpınar, Kabahaydar, Sakçagözü, Hama, Restan, Torbalı, Suratkaya, Samsat, Adıyaman, Tuleil, Tell Tayinat, Göstesin.