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	Hittites. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		B.C. To the southwest, in the Taurus and Cilicia, were the Luites, relatives of the Hittites; to the southeast, in the Upper Euphrates, the Hurrians (Khurrites).
		In the country the Hittites then occupied, the aboriginal inhabitants were apparently the Khatti, or Hatti.
		There is also a hieroglyphic alphabet (or syllabary) liberally represented; the deciphering of this script was aided by the bilingual texts found at Karatepe and was published by H. Bossert.
	www.bartleby.com /65/hi/Hittites.html (481 words)

	The neo-Hittite states from c. 1180 to 700 BC (from Anatolia) -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Carchemish (on the modern border between Turkey and Syria) and Milid (Arslantepe, near modern Malatya) were the most important Luwian strongholds of this intermediary age, and both were characterized by the same interaction of Luwian and Hurrian influences that had...
		Hittite is known primarily from the approximately 25,000 cuneiform tablets or fragments of tablets preserved in the archives of Bogazköy (the ancient Hattusa, in modern Turkey), the majority of which are from the period of the Hittite empire...
		system of pictographic writing used in the Syrian Hittite states for writing an eastern dialect of the Luwian language (q.v.) chiefly in the period from the 10th to the 8th century BC, after the fall of the Hittite empire.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-44354 (857 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Hethites
		Soon new texts were discovered at Aleppo, Jerabûls, Ninive, Ghiaur-ka-lessi, Boghaz-Keui, Mount Sipylus, the Pass of Karabel: all presented the same strange hieroglyphic characters, engraved in relief and in boustrophedon fashion.
		When figures accompanied the inscriptions, they likewise bore a striking resemblance to one another: all were clad in a tunic reaching to the knees, were shod with boots with turned-up ends, and wore a high peaked cap.
		The Monuments of the Hittites, ibid., VII, pp.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/07305a.htm (2887 words)

	Archaeology, Archaeology and Criticism - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
		The grotesque, yet confident, efforts at the decipherment of the Egyptian hieroglyphs before the discovery of the Rosetta Stone are not forgotten.
		The theory of the legendary character of the four kings of Genesis 14, and of the Hittites; and theory of the generally mythological character of the early portions of the Bible.
		The Hittites are seen to be a great nation, a third with Egypt and Babylonia (OLZ, December 15, 1906).
	www.searchgodsword.org /enc/isb/view.cgi?number=T695 (6042 words)

	Hittites
		Hittites, ancient people of Asia Minor and Syria, who flourished from 1600 to 1200 B.C. The Hittites, a people of Indo-European connection, were supposed to have entered Cappadocia c.1800 B.C. To the southwest, in the Taurus and Cilicia, were the Luites, relatives of the Hittites; to the southeast, in the Upper Euphrates, the Hurrians (Khurrites).
		However, real evidence of Hittite existence does not occur until the Old Hittite Kingdom (1600–1400 B.C. This kingdom, which was centered in Cappadocia, was opposed by the Syrians.
		Hittite Lion Gate.(students study and comment on ancient art by the Hittites)(Brief Article) (School Arts)
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/history/A0823837.html (501 words)

	AllRefer.com - Hittites (Ancient History, Middle East) - Encyclopedia
		AllRefer.com - Hittites (Ancient History, Middle East) - Encyclopedia
		B.C. on the tablets written by Assyrian colonists (see Assyria) at KUltepe (Kanesh) in Cappadocia.
		The Hittite Empire that followed the Old Kingdom, with its capital at BogazkOy (also called Hattusas), was the chief power and cultural force in W Asia from 1400 to 1200
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/H/Hittites.html (532 words)

	Catholic Apologetics International - Robert Sungenis
		He was first successfull in the translation of Egyptian hieroglyphs, reading them as rebuses in primitive coptic language,he reconstituted from this one of christian era.
		Doing this, he demonstrates that the first pharao was Misraïm, son of Ham, he finds testimonies cocernig Jacob, Joseph, the persecution of Hebreus by Sethos and Ramses II, and Egyptian accounts of Joshuah's and Isaiah's solar miracles.
		Using the same method and language, he translated Cretan and Hittite hieroglyphs,peculiarly the Karchemish bas relief which describes the lives of arounf 85 Hittite kings, from Heth, grandson of Ham, up to the last king living in the 8th century.
	www.catholicintl.com /qa/2005/qa-feb-05.htm (16418 words)

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