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Arslantepe, meaning “Lion Hill,” as a book category highlights works centered on the archaeological site of Arslantepe (ancient Melid) in eastern Anatolia and its broader Near Eastern context. Titles in this genre explore the rise of early complex societies from the Late Chalcolithic through the Iron Age: palatial architecture and administration, sealing and accounting systems before widespread writing, elite power and ritual, and innovations in metallurgy—including some of the world’s earliest swords. The category also includes studies of art and iconography, notably the Neo-Hittite monuments, as well as discussions of trade networks along the Upper Euphrates, urbanization, collapse and continuity, and heritage conservation at this UNESCO-listed site. Readers will find excavation reports, scholarly syntheses, museum catalogues, accessible popular histories, and occasionally historical fiction grounded in the site’s archaeology. In short, “Arslantepe” gathers books that use this landmark site to illuminate the emergence of cities, states, and early technologies in Anatolia and the ancient Near East.

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