Thanks to a chance meeting on a train James Mellaart stumbled across a treasure trove that challenged everything we knew about ancient Anatolia... only to be left holding the bag when it disappeared under mysterious circumstances. (Or maybe he just made it all up.)

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Key sources for this episode include Kenneth Pearson and Patricia Connor's The Dorak Affair; Michael Balter's The Goddess and the Bull; numerous articles by Susan Mazur; and several academic papers by Eberhard Zangger.

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