Waterpainting

I have never seen this technique before, but it's nice. Have you?

Languages

I could not learn many words in Turkish, since it's so much different from the languages I am used to hear. Here you are a sample: su- water; evet- yes; ioc- no, tamam- OK, inshallah- with God's will, efendi- sir. "Thank you" is so long and complicated that you either are rude and skip it or say it in English. But you probably know all that.
For the same reasons, they find it hard learning English for example, and are pretty shy at speaking it, although they see language learning as a major educational goal. (The English lessons I saw were OK by me, and they had a Comenius assistant in a school) Still, the best English speakers I met were young men picking tourists in the streets and trying to entice them to the carpets shops. Some of their mistakes are really funny, such as the Stripping Section, or "a project in the field of cows" and some other funny use of words, but they have a great sense of humour and laugh heartily if you explain them. Anyway, I wish we had professional translators in the museums.As you asked, here are some (bad) photos of the computer.
And here are letters on clay from the Hittite period- if I got it well, their envelopes (they were business letters, therefore secret) and the seals. As far as I understood, scientists could read the etters, so they are not so secret any longer.
But the most interesting thing was noticing the words we have got from Turkish- far more than I imagined, although they have a different writing and some have another meaning or an ironical connotation. Funny how languages influence each other and reflect the history. It's a topic that always intrigued me- maybe some day I'll have time to find out more.