The Rise of the Hittites: From Hattusa to an Empire, c. 1750–1350 BC | Calm Bedtime History
At dusk in the seventeenth century BC, a Hittite royal messenger enters Ḫattuša, the walled city in the hills of central Anatolia. Beyond its gates, the routes south cross the Taurus Mountains towards Alalaḫ and the Syrian kingdoms that would draw Hittite kings into wider campaigns.
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