[SunkenCiv]

I’ve never eaten there, but if I’m ever in midtown, I’ll probably try Sardi’s.

[Cronos]

What I find enigmatic about the Lydians and other hittite-successors is their slow syncreticisation from Indo-European gods like Indra, Varuna, Agni to more Semitic and probably hurrian gods

After Alexander's conquests they seem to have been heavily hellenized.

The other fascinating thing to me about that area is the Hurrian peoples - were they ancestors to the Kartveli people? Were they relatives to Sumerians, Elamites and Dravidians (all sharing an agglutinative language)