» For the village in Azerbaijan, see Kültəpə. Kültepe is a modern village near the ancient city of Kaneš (Kanesh; Hittite Neša), located in the Kayseri Province of Turkey's Central Anatolia Region. The nearest modern city is Kayseri, about 20 km southwest. Kaneš was an important merchant colony (kârum) in the Old Assyrian period. It is the site of discovery of the earliest traces of the Hittite language, and the earliest attestation of any Indo-European l… (More on Kanesh)