Anatolia is the name currently applied to the Asian territory of modern Turkey. The art of Anatolia has an unusually long history extending from antiquity to the modern day. It encompasses the material culture of numerous civilizations: the Hittite (18th - 12th century B.C.), Assyrian (19th - 9th century B.C.) and Akkadian empires (24th - 22nd century B.C.) in the Bronze Age, followed by the Seleucid (4th - 1st century B.C.) and Seljuk empires (11th - 12th century A.D.). Anatolian works of art were transported along trade routes to Greece and Italy, and therefore some aspects of Greek and Roman art draw their inspiration from Anatolia as well as the Near East.