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unusual facts about History of the Hittites



Amorite

This era ended in northern Mesopotamia with the defeat and expulsion of the Amorite dominated Babylonians from Assyria by king Adasi circa 1730 BC, and in the south with the Hittite sack of Babylon (c. 1595 BC) which brought new ethnic groups — particularly Kassites — to the forefront in southern Mesopotamia.

Muazzez İlmiye Çığ

Among her teachers were two of the period's most eminent scholars of Hittite culture and history, Hans Gustav Güterbock and Benno Landsberger, both Hitler-era German-Jewish refugees, who spent World War II as professors in Turkey.

Vasily Vasilievich Struve

His major scientific works were also on the history and history of arts of Sumer, Babylonia, Assyria, Hittite Empire and other civilizations of the Ancient Near East.


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