Most of the ancient documents describing this culture that was once a rivaling threat to the ancient Egyptian kingdom were lost in the sand.Ī majority of the Hittites were illiterate and could not describe their daily life. Credit: Bernard Gagnon, Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 The Mysterious Language Of The HittitesĪlthough the civilization was over 4,000-years-old, it was first 1834 that a French scholar discovered ancient ruins that could be linked to the Hittites. Credit: Verity Cridland, Wikipedia, CC BY 2.0 - Right: Sphinx Gate, Hattusa, Turkey. Left: Neo-Hittite storm god "Tarhunzas" in the Aleppo museum. This long-gone culture has been of great interest to archaeologists and historians but unraveling the truth about the Hittites has been a difficult task.
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