Hittite

Although the Hittite kingdom disappeared from Anatolia at this point, there emerged a number of so-called Neo-Hittite kingdoms in Anatolia and northern Syria.

During the Old Hittite Kingdom period prior to 1400 BC, the king of the Hittites was not viewed by the Hittite citizenry as a "living god", like the Pharaohs of Egypt, but rather as a first among equals.

However, the Hittite campaigns caused internal dissension which forced a withdrawal of troops to the Hittite homelands.

However, with the ascent of the Hittite empire, Mitanni and Egypt made an alliance to protect their mutual interests from the threat of Hittite domination.

The letter describes one Piyama-Radu as a troublesome rebel who overthrew a Hittite client king and thereafter established his own rule over the city of Troy (mentioned as Wilusa in Hittite).

The political instability of these years of the Old Hittite Kingdom, can be explained in part by the nature of the Hittite kingship at that time.

Immediately after the earthquake, measures were taken for the protection of the statue of Şuppiluliuma, the statue of the Hittite king who left his mark on the history of the Near East for 35 years, Arsuz Steles, Antakya sarcophagus and mosaics.

The features of the mummy were not typical of the Hittite people but similar to Egyptians, however, given that the man was buried in a nameless tomb; all these theories are only speculation.

According to Hittite sources, the capital of the Kingdom of Arzawa (another independent state in Western and Southern Anatolia/Asia Minor citation ) was Apasa (or Abasa).

A collision with the Hittite Empire over their sometime dependency at a then strategic location, Troy, was to be expected.

A few words from another Indo-Aryan language (see Indo-Aryan superstrate in Mitanni ) are attested in documents from the ancient Mitanni kingdom in northern Mesopotamia and Syria and the Hittite kingdom in Anatolia.

A late Bronze Age Hittite shrine in northern Syria contained a bronze statue of a god holding a serpent in one hand and a staff in the other.

Also the campaigns into Syria and Mesopotamia may be responsible for the reintroduction of cuneiform writing into Anatolia, since the Hittite script is quite different from the script of the preceding Assyrian Colony period.

Anatolia * Cybele : Her Hittite name was Kubaba, but her name changed to Cybele in Phrygian and Roman culture.

Assyria now posed just as great a threat to Hittite trade routes as Egypt ever had.

Atreids in Asia Minor Map showing the Hittite empire and the Ahhiyawa (most probably the Achaeans).

By that time, the populations were a mixture of the ancient Anatolian or " Syro-Hittite " substrate and post-Bronze-Age-collapse "Thraco-Phrygian" and more recent Greco-Macedonian incursions.

For several centuries there were separate Hittite groups, usually centered on various cities.

Founded by an Indo-Aryan ruling class that governed a predominately Hurrian population, Mitanni came to be a regional power after the Hittite destruction of Kassite Babylon created a power vacuum in Mesopotamia.

Francis William Newman expressed the critical view, common in the early nineteenth century, that, if the Hittites existed at all, "no Hittite king could have compared in power to the King of Judah.