Warriors of Anatolia. A Concise History of the Hittites - Trevor Bryce
records, but we did not know precisely where they were–until their sites were excavated and tablet archives found there establis ...
countries and cities located somewhere in the western half of the Anatolian peninsula, but no precise information, either archae ...
Arzawa lands, must have had scribal establishments, because of their rulers’frequent written communications with the Hittite kin ...
Hawkins has correctly deciphered the inscription, which identifies the sculptedfigure as a man called Tarkasnawa, king of the la ...
region at this time. But although both archaeological and written sources seem to support an identification of Milawata as the B ...
immortalised in legend as the leader of the Greek forces in the Trojan War. Forrer reasoned that the Hittites must have come int ...
That was in 1932. The debate between Forrer and his critics became bitter and acrimonious and deeply personal–without any resolu ...
joined together from time to time for military or commercial operations, but probably retained their political independence from ...
homeland; here was located the capital Hattusa and many of the empire’s major cult and administrative centres; (ii) a number of ...
CHAPTER 7 Building an Empire W e’ve noted that in thefifteenth century, the warrior- pharaoh Tuthmosis III had sought to establi ...
With Kizzuwatna he adopted a different tactic. Instead of attempting to subdue it by force, he made a treaty of alliance with it ...
not know. All we can say is that with Kizzuwatna on his side, the way to Syria now lay open before him. ANEWSYRIAN VENTURE In th ...
Mittani had to be broken. Far better to do this through diplomatic negotiation than by force of arms. A Hittite alliance with Al ...
(alternatively called Hanigalbat in the text). The Mittanian king certainly survived any confrontations he may have had with Tud ...
followed those he conducted in Syria). But in the interests of simplicity, I’ll attribute all military campaigns conducted by a ...
members were located. (Some scholars believe that the Graeco- Roman name Asia was derived from Assuwa.) In an attempt to reduce, ...
northern and eastern frontiers, and extending their power and influence southeastwards into Syria, and when they faced the const ...
We have no objective, independent contemporary historians to chronicle from an impartial viewpoint the episodes that make up the ...
CHAPTER 8 Lion or Pussycat? B uilding a large kingdom or empire involves a catch-22 situation. If your kingdom remains small, yo ...
to Tudhaliya after a dispute with‘a man of Ahhiya’called Attarissiya. ‘Ahhiya’is a rare, early shorter form of‘Ahhiyawa’.Andsowe ...
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