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Politics and Propaganda in the Negative Historiography of the Hittite Old Kingdom
Anadolu AraştırmalarıHattušili I faced a formidable threat to his throne from his aunt, Tawananna, who was based in Hurma. Realizing the inherent power of political propaganda, he commissioned a unique Hittite genre that Beckman has termed “negative historiography” to ...
Javier Martínez
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The Sea Peoples, from cuneiform tablets to carbon dating. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2011 The 13(th) century BC witnessed the zenith of the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean civilizations which declined at the end of the Bronze Age, similar to 3200 years ago.
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ATHENS JOURNAL OF MEDITERRANEAN STUDIES, 2021 In this article, we intend to analyse the importance and modus operandi of a military unit (generally known as “Royal Guard”) whose function was, among other things, the protection of the Hattuša-based Hittite kings. For this essay, we will be mainly using two Hittite textual sources known as “instructions” or “protocols”.
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Issues of the history of the Early Hittite Kingdom
Banber Arevelagitut'yan Instituti, 2023 The Hittite state is closely related to the kingdom of Kanesh by historical ties. Its background could be understood through the study of the last stage of the history of the citystate Kanesh or Nesa in the second half of the II millennium BC. It is also
Ghazaryan Robert
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Administrative and political system and economy of the Kingdom of Kanesh
Banber Arevelagitut'yan Instituti, 2022 The state of Kanesh was one of the state formations established in Asia Minor during the Bronze Age. It played a significant role in the process of formation and establishment of the Hittite state (mid-XVII century BC - early XII century BC).
Robert Ghazaryan
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People on both sides of the aegean sea [PDF]
, 1991 International audienceOur contribution is devoted to a constructive overview over the implicit system approach in modern control of switched dynamic models.
Ünal, Ahmet
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Tuwati and Wasusarma: Imitating the behaviour of Assyria [PDF]
, 2010 This essay reviews the evidence concerning the Tabalian king Wasusarma and his father Tuwati, who appear in Neo-Assyrian and Urartian annals. The context for the removal of Wasusarma (Uassurme) from power by the Assyrian king is assumed to have lain in ...
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After the Hittites: The Kingdoms of Karkamish and Palistin in Northern Syria [PDF]
, 2013 The disappearance and weakening of the Late Bronze Age territorial empires in the Eastern Mediterranean shortly after 1200 BC is traditionally held to be followed by a so-called Dark Age of around 300 years, characterized by a lack of written sources ...
Weeden, Mark
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The Nature of the Mycenaean Wanax: Non-Indo-European Origins and Priestly Functions [PDF]
, 1995 The wanax is the central figure of authority in Mycenaean society. This much is clear from studies of the references to wanax in the Linear B tablets, interpretation of the history of the use of the term wanax in Homer and later Greek, and reconstruction
Palaima, Thomas G.
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Further work at Kilise Tepe, 2007-11: refining the Bronze to Iron Age transition [PDF]
, 2014 The excavations at Kilise Tepe in the 1990s inevitably left a range of research questions unanswered, and our second spell of work at the site from 2007 to 2011 sought to address some of these, relating to the later second and early first millennia. This
Bouthillier, Christina +11 more
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