Charles Texier

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Charles Texier

French archaeologist

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Boğazköy
Excavations
…1834 by the French explorer Charles Texier, who saw Yazılıkaya and those remains of the ancient city that were aboveground. After visits by British and German travelers, it was another Frenchman, Ernest Chantre, who in 1892–93 made the first soundings and found the first cuneiform tablets there. The language in…
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…1834 by the French explorer Charles Texier, who saw Yazılıkaya and those remains of the ancient city that were aboveground. After visits by British and German travelers, it was another Frenchman, Ernest Chantre, who in 1892–93 made the first soundings and found the first cuneiform tablets there. The language in…
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