Thames and Hudson | 1986 | Pdf | Eng | 176 pag | ISBN:10 0500021082 | 45 MB

J.G.Macqueen REVISED AND ENLARGED EDITION

Hailed by reviewers as "stimulating," "outstanding" and of "enduring value" when it first appeared in 1 975, The Hittites has now been completely revised by the author and is republished in a new format with additional illustrations.

The Hittites were an Indo-European-speaking people who established a kingdom in Anatolia (modern Turkey) almost four thousand years ago. They rose to become one of  the great powers of the Ancient Middle Eastern world by conquering Babylon and challenging the power of the Egyptian Pharaoh Rameses 1 1 at the battle of Qadesh. 

They themselves were destroyed in the wake of the movements of the enigmatic Sea Peoples around 11 80 BC