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- 01The postern tunnel at Hattusa runs 70 metres beneath the wall in a corbelled stone arch, still intact after 3,300 years.
- 02Two sphinx statues, each several tonnes, flanked the city's southern gate as guardians of the Hittite capital.
- 03Hattusa's walls enclosed approximately 180 hectares on a ridgeline in Anatolia at the empire's height around 1400 BCE.