Acemhöyük is located 18 km northwest of Aksaray, on the southeastern end of the Tuz Gölü, in a fertile plain on the Uluirmak or Melendiz.

The ruins are arranged, like those of Kültepe, into two parts: a settlement on a hill, measuring 700 m east–west and 600 m north–south, and a lower city, which is partially covered by the modern village of Yeşilova.

[1] Joost Blasweiler (2019) offers detailed arguments that Acemhöyük was the location of the city of Purushanda known from many cuneiform texts.

In the Early Bronze, Acemhöyük was a central hub in the Anatolian Trade Network which reached Troy and the Cyclades in the west, and Mesopotamia in the east.

Such items indicate the wide interregional commercial relations of Acemhöyük during the Early Bronze Age III period.

A fine example of a Syrian bottle from Acemhöyük has been dated to the beginning of the Early Bronze Age III (2450-2300 BC).

The vessel appears to have been imported, and it may be related to the flat- and ring-based flasks from Northwestern Syria and areas nearby.

Layer III belongs to the karum period and represents the height of the settlement's prosperity, but it was heavily destroyed by fire.

This trade continued into the early Middle Bronze IIA, but started to weaken after 1750 BC when great leaders like Shamshi-Adad of Assyria and Hammurabi of Babylon had passed away.

The northern, eastern and western sides were surrounded by a portico, made of marble bases and wooden pillars.

ivory furniture fittings were donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art by the collector George D. Pratt.

Subsequent scholarship has shown that several of these pieces originally formed part of an elaborate gold and ivory throne, which has been convincingly reconstructed by Elizabeth Simpson.

[9] In the 1960s, archaeological excavations of the Sarikaya Palace revealed stylistically similar ivory pieces, including a wing that matched with a falcon in the Pratt collection.