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Book Data Full Description：: The Hittites, an ancient Indo-European people who appeared at the end of the 2nd millennium BC, were one of the dominant powers of the Middle East by 1340 BC. This is their story and contains information about the people, their political organization, social structure, economy and religion.
The Hittites, an ancient Indo-European people who appeared in Anatolia at the beginning of the 2nd millennium BC, had become one of the dominant powers of the Middle East by 1340 BC.
Early kings of the Hittite Old Kingdom had extended Hittite control over much of northern Syria eventually raiding down the Eurphrates to Babylon. The struggle with Egypt under Ramses II for control of Syria led to one of greatest battles of the ancient world at Kadesh in 1299 BC.
The fall of the Hittite Empire in 1193 BC was sudden - perhaps because of large scale migration - and historical records were scarce. But then the discovery of Hittite cuneiform tablets at their ancient capitol of Hattusa in the 1940s yielded fascinating information about the people, their political organization, social structure, economy and religion. This book unlocks the secrets of this ancient empire.

Baker&Taylor Table of Contents：

I THE ENIGMA OF THEIR EXISTENCE
  Discovery and Wild Surmise                       3  (19)
    Leander Swam from Asia to Europe. What Was
    Known About the Hittites in A.D. 1871. What
    is known Today. Asia Minor: A Winter Like
    Northern Germany, A Summer Like Southern
    France. Texier and the Runis of Boghazkoy.
    ``Sheik Ibrahim.'' The Hamath Stones. Sayce
    Guesses the Existence of a Hittite Empire
  The Bible and New Research                       22 (24)
    Abraham and the Children of Heth. The Bible
    as a Source Book of History. A Farmer's
    Wife Throws Clay Tablets Around. The Amarna
    Archives. ``Let My Brother send Me Very
    Much Gold.'' Humann and Luschan Dig at
    Zinjirli. Lions Beneath the ``Flower of the
    Lower World.'' ``The Goal We Had Sought Had
    Been Achieved''--Really?
  Winckler Digs in Boghazkoy                       46 (25)
    The Anti-Semite and his Jewish Banker.
    Tacht-biti--Vermin. Zia Bey, Scion of
    Seldjuk Nobility. The First Thirty-Four
    Clay Tablets. A Royal Treaty 3100 Years
    Old. Hattusas, The Capital of the Hittites.
    Zia Bey's Banquet. Digging up Clay Tablets
    as a Peasant Woman Digs Potatoes. Garstang
    Visits Winckler. Lieutenant Kammergruber
    Aids the Advancement of Science
II THE RIDDLE OF THE SCRIPTS
  On the Art of Deciphering                        71 (16)
    Dead Languages. The Classic Examples:
    Grotefend and Champollion. The Dream of
    Scholars: A Bilingual. William Jones Learns
    Sanskrit. The Discovery of the
    Indo-European Family of Languages.
    Friedrich Hrozny's Preliminary Report.
    Ninda, Ezza, and Vadar. The Hittites Were
    Indo-Europeans
  Did the Hittites Speak Hittite?                  87 (9)
    Questions for Hrozny. How did
    Indo-Europeans Come to Anatolia? The
    Dangers of Etymology. The Grammar of
    Hittite. A Scholar Corrects the Mistakes of
    Hittite Scribes. The Eight Languages of
    Boghazkoy. Is Chinese an Important Language
    in London? Who Really Spoke Hattili? ``You
    Rise Out of the Sea.'' Cuneiform and
    Hieroglyphic Scripts
  ``Nothing Can Be Deciphered Out of Nothing!''    96 (23)
    Sayce Works on The Hittite Hieroglyphs for
    Fifty-Five Years. King, City, and Country.
    The Importance of the Small. Diagonal Line.
    The Constantinople Coin-Collector. Six
    Signs Have Been Deciphered! ``The Camera
    Doesn't Lie.'' Messerschmidt and Jensen.
    Fourteen Scholars on the Same Trail. Nasty
    Quarrels. The Bilingual Seal of Boghazkoy.
    The First Proof
III THE SECRET OF THEIR POWER
  The Kings of Hattusas                            119(13)
    On the Writing of History. Science or
    Fiction? Herodotus and Suetonius. Ranke and
    Spengler. The Invention of ``Cultural
    History.'' The Curse of Anittas. Labarnas
    Founds the Empire. The Testament of
    Hattusilis. Mursilis Conquers Babylon.
    Murder Most Foul. The Law of Telipinus. The
    Two Hundred Missing Years
  The Science of Historical Dating                 132(21)
    The Importance of Chronology. The Basis of
    Historical Dating. Ancient Babylonian King
    List WB 444. Correcting the Chroniclers.
    The First Fixed Points. The Orbit of
    Sirius. The Oldest Date in World History?
    The Tenth Royal City after the Flood. The
    Archives of Mari. Isotope C 14
  The Battle of Kadesh                             153(47)
    The Greatest Invention of the Second
    Millennium B.C. The First Manual of
    Horse-Training. Suppiluliumas I. Mursilis's
    Prayers in Time of Plague. Battles, from
    Troy to Dienbienphu. The Battle of Kadesh.
    Ramses's Version. The Peace Treaty. The
    Wedding of The Hittite Princess. Hattusas
    Burns
  City and Land--People and Customs                200(19)
    Zia Bey's Konak. Nineteen Years Later.
    Morgen, Herr Hauptmann! Workers' Rebellion.
    Bittel Finds a Thousand New Clay Tablets. A
    Hittite Empire--but was There a Hittite
    Culture?
IV THE MYSTERY OF THEIR SURVIVAL
  The Finds on the Black Mountain                  219(22)
    The Lion Stone. Bossert Finds a Semitic
    Inscription and Hittite Hieroglyphs. Who
    Really Discovered Karatepe? In the Black
    Tents of the Nomads. Citadel, Statues,
    Reliefs, and Inscriptions. The Mistake.
    Nocturnal Encounter with Karatepe
  Asitawandas Speaks                               241(12)
    Translation of the Phcenician Inscription.
    King Asitawandas, Lord of Karatepe. The
    Pronoun 'nk and King Anek. Doubts about the
    Bilingual. Steinherr Dreams about
    Hieroglyphs. Another Bilingual?
  The Future                                       253(4)
Chronological Table                                257(4)
Bibliography                                       261(20)
Index                                              281