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How Did a Hittite Queen Maintain the Peace Between Two Warring Empires? - The Institutional Authority of Hittite Queen Puduhepa | Sleepy Facts About History
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In the late thirteenth century BCE, the Hittite Empire and Egypt's New Kingdom finally agreed to end decades of conflict. But treaties do not maintain themselves. They require patient correspondence, the careful exchange of gifts, the arrangement of dynastic marriages, and the constant management of perception. Much of this diplomatic work was carried out by a woman whose name survives in official records more than any other royal woman of the ancient Near East: Puduhepa, Queen of Hatti…
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