The discovery of the Hittites
Petros Mechtidis
Archaeologist and Conservator of Works of Art, Museum of Byzantine Culture, Thessaloniki, Greece
Travellers who toured Anatolia and Syria in the 19th and 20th centuries came in contact with traces of the unknown civilisation of the Hittites. They faced formidable problems in identifying not only the ruins or surviving inscriptions but in finding out the civilisation in which these belonged. Identifications moved throughout the eastern Mediterranean civilisations, even to the city of Pteria, mentioned by Herodotus. We had to reach 1872 and William Wright to solve the mystery.
Key words: Hittites, Hattusas, Bogazkoy, Texier, Sayce
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