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C.W. Ceram

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Description:This book continues the panorama of the ancient world presented in Gods, Graves & Scholars ('49). Since Ceram wrote that, a highly significant discovery has been made. The darkest archeological riddle of the Orient has been virtually solved & this with dramatic suddenness in the past few years. Tho some mysterious ruins in central Turkey had been noticed in 1834, no one for a long time ascribed them to the Hittites, a people given just a few lines in the Bible & dismissed as a minor Syrian tribe. Only in 1880 did an archeologist advance the reckless theory that there once had been a Hittite Empire stretching from the Black Sea to Damascus. Only around '10 did we gain our 1st faint knowledge of its history. Only since '46 has there been hope of reading the Hittite hieroglyphic inscriptions & only recently has anyone done so. Now we know that 20 centuries before Christ the Indo-European Hittites descended into Asia Minor. Now we can set a 3rd great empire beside Hammurabi's Babylon & Ramses' Egypt. Now we can read the 1st fragments of a great unknown literature, of which the author presents excerpts. Now we know the truth about Kadesh, one of the few battles that shaped world history. Now we know the true story of the 1st great political treaty in history between the Hittites & Egypt. But, even more important than any of these details, we can now crosscheck & synchronize the histories of Babylon & Egypt, enlarging our knowledge of the ancient world. Archeology once more is achieving new vistas on our distant past & of the uttermost origins of civilization. The Secret of the Hittites is not only a scientific thriller covering more than a century of detective work, but also a 1sthand report of its climactic achievements, a report that has never before been published except in scientific journals, & that is here presented with all the color & readability for which the author is known. C.W. Ceram (1915-72) is the pseudonym of Kurt Wilhelm Marek, a German propagandist, journalist & author known for his works in popular archeology.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Secret of the Hittites: The Discovery of an Ancient Empire. To get started finding The Secret of the Hittites: The Discovery of an Ancient Empire, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: This book continues the panorama of the ancient world presented in Gods, Graves & Scholars ('49). Since Ceram wrote that, a highly significant discovery has been made. The darkest archeological riddle of the Orient has been virtually solved & this with dramatic suddenness in the past few years. Tho some mysterious ruins in central Turkey had been noticed in 1834, no one for a long time ascribed them to the Hittites, a people given just a few lines in the Bible & dismissed as a minor Syrian tribe. Only in 1880 did an archeologist advance the reckless theory that there once had been a Hittite Empire stretching from the Black Sea to Damascus. Only around '10 did we gain our 1st faint knowledge of its history. Only since '46 has there been hope of reading the Hittite hieroglyphic inscriptions & only recently has anyone done so. Now we know that 20 centuries before Christ the Indo-European Hittites descended into Asia Minor. Now we can set a 3rd great empire beside Hammurabi's Babylon & Ramses' Egypt. Now we can read the 1st fragments of a great unknown literature, of which the author presents excerpts. Now we know the truth about Kadesh, one of the few battles that shaped world history. Now we know the true story of the 1st great political treaty in history between the Hittites & Egypt. But, even more important than any of these details, we can now crosscheck & synchronize the histories of Babylon & Egypt, enlarging our knowledge of the ancient world. Archeology once more is achieving new vistas on our distant past & of the uttermost origins of civilization. The Secret of the Hittites is not only a scientific thriller covering more than a century of detective work, but also a 1sthand report of its climactic achievements, a report that has never before been published except in scientific journals, & that is here presented with all the color & readability for which the author is known. C.W. Ceram (1915-72) is the pseudonym of Kurt Wilhelm Marek, a German propagandist, journalist & author known for his works in popular archeology.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Secret of the Hittites: The Discovery of an Ancient Empire. To get started finding The Secret of the Hittites: The Discovery of an Ancient Empire, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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