Archaeologists have unearthed 4,000-year-old tablets that represent one of the first written trade agreements in Anatolia, according to a professor from Ankara University's Faculty of Letters, History and Geography. "We have discovered the cuneiform-script tablets in Kültepe-Karum excavations in the Central Anatolian province of Kayseri," Günbattı said. Archaeologists have been carrying out excavations in Karum village near the Kültepe mound, where Assyrians used to live, since 1948. They have unearthed some 23,000 cuneiform-script tablets so far. "Around 4,500 tablets have been smuggled abroad since 1948," Günbattı said. He said Assyrian tradesmen who settled in the region 4,000 years ago sold tin and fabrics they brought from Mesopotamia. [...]