Most of the EBA remains on the upper city were destroyed in the construction of the Hittite palace.

The Hittites' capital at this time was either Sapinuwa (which has been found) or else Samuha (which has been identified since 2005 based on archives).

One place-name mentioned in the texts is Tabigga/Tabikka/Tapikka, which is now generally considered to be the Hittite name of the Maşat Höyük site.

[6] Wood collected by field archaeologist Tahsin Özgüç of Ankara University at the upper Hittite level at Masat Höyük has been added to the Aegean Dendrochronology Project, a 30-year-long project established to build tree-ring chronologies for the Eastern half of the Mediterranean.

The wood, which was tentatively dated to 1353 BCE, was retrieved from an excavation site of a building where archeologists also had found imported Late Helladic IIIA/B Stirrup jars, a famous form of pottery.