National Geographic History - USA (2020-03)

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY 17 liday. The sheriff tried to convince the Earps to back off, but they pressed on, finding the Clan ...

HITTITES MASTERS OF THE WAR CHARIOT ...

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY 19 A great empire more than 3,000 years ago, the Hittite civilization rose to power waging war from ...

20 MARCH/APRIL 2020 opponent. Based in their fortified capital of Hat- tusa (about 130 miles east of Ankara, Turkey, today), the ...

group to which many of the world’s spoken lan- guages belong. By the 17th century b.c., the Hittites were emerging as a growing ...

22 MARCH/APRIL 2020 civil wars. As the Hittite princes squabbled over succession, their enemies were able to conquer Hattusilis’ ...

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY 23 was for use in parades and funerary rites. These vehicles were not pulled by horses, but by oxen ...

24 MARCH/APRIL 2020 Chariot Diplomacy Advances in Hittite chariot design coincided with the rise of the Hittite Empire as a powe ...

who would play a fateful role in Hittite history. The new king was Muwatallis II, who faced Ramses II at Kadesh in 1275 b.c. Big ...

ALL CHARIOT ILLUSTRATIONS: SOL 90/ALBUM QUICKER, LIGHTER, DEADLIER Appearing in the third millennium b.c. in Mesopotamia, early ...

A STONE RELIEF DEPICTS A CHARIOT CRUSHING AN ENEMY. IT WAS CREATED IN THE TENTH TO EIGHTH CENTURIES B.C. IN THE NEO-HITTITE KING ...

Egypt’s Enduring Mother Goddess ISIS JAIME ALVAR For two millennia Egyptians worshipped Isis, a divine mother, healer, and prote ...

EGYPT’S PROTECTRESS This mural depicting Isis adorns the 13th-century b.c. tomb of Horemheb, in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt ...

OUT OF EGYPT 3rd millennium b.c. The Pyramid Texts establish the role of Isis as protector of her consort Osiris, her son Horus, ...

6 th century a.d. The Christian Byzantine emperor Justinian closes the Temple of Isis at Philae, ending the worship of the godde ...

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Horus grows up to banish Set, restoring order to the world. The earliest mention of Isis can be found in the Pyramid Texts, sacr ...

AKG/ALBUM FERTILE TRADE With Isis remodeled as a Greco-Egyptian goddess, the cult of Isis was centered in Alexandria, where a me ...

36 MARCH/APRIL 2020 Israel, and Turkey. She became linked with regional deities. In Greece Isis was originally linked with Demet ...