Hattusa | Rise and Fall of the Ancient Hittite City

Hattusa, also known as Hattusha, is an ancient city located near modern Boğazkale in the Çorum Province of Turkey’s Black Sea Region . This ancient city once served as the capital of the Hittite Empire, one of the superpowers of the ancient world.
In the Amarna Letters , which have been dated to the 14th century BC, the Hittites were referred to by the Egyptians as a major power, alongside Assyria, Mitanni, and Babylonia, and they were treated as equals.
Hattusa was established by the Hatti, the indigenous people who were living in that area prior to the coming of the Hittites. The origins of the Hittites are still a mystery, and they may have invaded / immigrated into Hatti territory, settled, and established their empire there.
The Hittite Empire began its decline around the middle of the 13th century BC, mainly due to the rise of their eastern neighbors, the Assyrians. Moreover, raids by hostile forces, such as the Sea Peoples and the Kaska further weakened the Hittite Empire, finally resulting in its collapse during the first half of the 12th century BC. In 1190 BC, the Kaskas managed to capture Hattusa, which they then sacked and burned.
Hattusa was abandoned for the next 400 hundred years, and then was resettled by the Phrygians. The site continued to exist as a settlement during the Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine periods, though its years of glory were already long behind it.
In the meantime, the Hittites faded, and eventually disappeared completely, with the exception of a few references in the Bible and some documents from Egypt. It was only during the 19th century, when excavations began to be carried out in Boğazkale, that the Hittites and their capital, Hattusa, were re-discovered by the modern world.
Original Article: Hattusa: The Cursed City of the Hatti and the Hittite Empire
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[@andreaarchaeology]

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[@philippa5004]

Thx for posting

[@elihinze3161]

The Hittites are one of the mot fascinating groups in history! I'd love to visit their ancient capital one day.

[@laylaalthawadi3012]

They are turk

[@israelserbie3989]

They are Hittites. If anything Turks are Hittites.

[@samkupp1390]

@@KZbinCollege-es7tf Caucasian isn't a race, it was a term used to refer to the people who lived in areas around the Caucasus Mountains. The word Caucasian is used in the U.S to refer to white race is incorrect.

[@Tealc-hf1zk]

@@KZbinCollege-es7tf congratulations for claiming something that has not been proven in any scientific study. I think you are Circassian after all. Please, be more specific. Who is Sayce? Le Norman? Morgan? I, myself, can say that I am Morgan. Does that make me THE French Scientist that you typed in about? Who are you, and what is your degree? Why should someone on the internet run into this tripe of yours and get disinformed? These are vacuous unfounded claims and have no space in the science society.

[@secularist4058]

@@KZbinCollege-es7tf Turks are assimilated native Anatolians buddy.

[@Amadeu.Macedo]

Amazing documentary! After the Sumerians and Akkadians, the Hittites represents my most favorite ancient civilization. BRAVO!

[@KeithShuler]

Thanks as always for the education!

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My pleasure! As always, I am thrilled to have you here!

[@barisveesitlik9310]

Every corner in Turkiye is an open museum! Fascinating country. Hittites are called also 'Eti' in Turkish. So founder of Turkiye, Ataturk, built a bank and named as Eti. And the second food company in Turkiye named themselves Eti too.

[@twonumber22]

Very cool. Have you done anything regarding ancient maps? What's the oldest map? And what's your favorite?

[@therongjr]

It should also be mentioned that the "Hittites" mentioned in the Bible were more likely the Neo-Hittites or Syro-Hittites in the eastern Mediterranean that succeeded the Hittite empire.

[@jlupus8804]

It’s potentially both, since they’re mentioned in books that take place before and after the Bronze Age collapse

[@badlaamaurukehu]

​@@jlupus8804It's a geographic chokepoint. There's going to be pre-ancient shit going on.

[@badlaamaurukehu]

Even rumors of natural or possibly even fabricated dams bursting...

[@lilitheden748]

5:53 this is the Standard of Ur 2600-2400 BC. Has nothing to do with the Hittites.

[@jaroslavpenkava5525]

It's more from Sumer there.

[@philippa5004]

True?

[@glenbrisebois8239]

What is the hieroglyphic graffiti at 5:41? Can anybody read that?

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I use Viper TV as a sleeping aid lol. I use Study of Antiquity to actually learn stuff.

[@dude1diligence]

Viper is new age propaganda.

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Please do a better job of matching your volumes! The voice-over was like screaming level compared to the other.

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[@studyofantiquityandthemidd4449]

In the video description.

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Ha siktir lan sen arapsin

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@KZbin College ولكن للاسف قلة قليلة من يعرف هذه الحقائق.

[@irockycat8156]

i thought someone else build it

[@delaramsalmassi4063]

Were the Hittites an Indo - Aryan or an Indo - Iranian people or what

[@TheYoungWolfI]

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[@jamienelson3470]

I've been having trouble with basic nomenclature regarding the Hittites, and feeling a little slow. Sorry if this is a silly question... So the Assyrians live in the Assyrian Empire, often called simply Assyria, the Babylonians in Babylonia, the Sumerians in Sumeria, the Akkadians in Akkadia, the Persians in Persia, etc. But you can't do that with the Hittite Empire. It's not "Hittitia". So what is the name of their land? Is it always the whole three words, "the Hittite Empire"?

[@fuferito]

I think they refer to their land as Hattusa, same as their capital city, or even Hatti. The people are also referred to as, either, Hatti, or Hittites.

[@jamienelson3470]

@@fuferito Thank you! I've been curious about that for ages. :-D Edit: I tried Googling it, but Google didn't seem to understand the question. I learned a whole bunch of other stuff about them, though, so that was fun.

[@Downey-2000]

For some reason that part of the world is called Anatolia . Like Portugal and Spain in ibiria and Sweden , Finland and Norway is Scandinavia.

[@Downey-2000]

@@AnthonyJones-bx5ij yeah and the hitittes are gone. They don't live there anymore. Some say they are the Basque.

[@trevorhunton7526]

I don't think any of them had what we would regard as an empire, I think the more powerful city states used force to extract tribute from other smaller cities. We call them cities but to modern standards they were small to average sized towns and were dotted all over the middle east.

[@dr.k.sivasakthivel5695]

The wish stone looks like India lord shiva

[@markmcgowan5656]

Serpent seed!!

[@i.wainstein]

Hittites were sakaens(saka, saqtar): hats, clothes, swords,bows etc are the same!

[@OSUex]

I googled your sakaens saka and saqtar and found nothing.

[@i.wainstein]

@@OSUex ru.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Саки_(племена)

[@OSUex]

@@i.wainstein Oh so Saka people are a branch of the Scythians. Now I understand. You seem to have a good reason. I read that the Saka were called the people with the pointed hats. The pointed hats of the Saka resemble the pointed hats we see in relief in Hattusa. Thanks for enlightening me. I appreciate it.

[@i.wainstein]

@@OSUex Thank you too

[@OSUex]

@KZbin College Hittite is an extinct Indo-European language. It has strong similarities to Germanic languages. It is completely unrelated to Circassian languages. Hittite script was Sumerian Cuneiform not a script used by any of the Circassian languages.

[@ladbible2338]

Disapeard?!?! What the hell😂

[@scumskimmer]

The origins of the Hittites aren't that much of a mystery - they were descended from the proto- Indo Europeans and migrated from the Russian steppes

[@scumskimmer]

@OnoxXx not really. That part of the world is an incredible melting pot but I'm pretty sure Turkish people migrated from central Asia, displacing the existing inhabitants - and how much of the Hittite gene pool was left at this point is questionable.

[@scumskimmer]

@OnoxXx fair enough, my bad🙂 out of interest did you ever get your DNA tested? It's throwing up interesting results across Europe.

[@wankawanka3053]

@Onox TR 😂😂😂indeed funny because they ain't

[@vassilopoula]

​@Onur The Turcoman it's not an opinion, just mere facts. Turks came to Asia Minor from Central Asia in the 11th century AD, in the Byzantine area. They do not have any genetic,linguistic or historian rellation whatsoever with ancient Anatolia civilizations. However, a large part of today's Turks do have Greek DNA, because Greeks inhabited these lands for thousands of years

[@badlaamaurukehu]

Central Asian Steppes. The Russ ethnics were not much involved prior to the Mongolian low tide and eventual dissolution and assimilation.

[@eliseolopez2790]

Noah, , Canaan,heth, Hittite

[@ChrisNel1983]

Maybe don’t read the section headings and don’t read things like “colony/colonies/is/are”. I realise you are just reading as written but it just comes off as machine generated narration.

[@saigonmonopoly1105]

Why the hell they build their capital on top of a jagged pointy mountain top as the base to their capital? Wouldn’t that be major movement disadvantage?

[@josephphoenix1376]

Defense?

[@WokeandProud]

Mountains are extremely defensible and also have snowmelt provideding water there's a reason they were the biggest empire during the bronze age.

[@magnusc1857]

Hetites is not proper nome for that people, egiptian call them Gets they shuerli knowed with whoom they fight in Kadesh in 12 senc. bc. Gets was Serbian tribe who liwed around Black sea and in Balcan and was same as Dacians, capital town of Dacia have had nome Serbogetusha. This is not fantasy Balcan is ground zero of our civilization but west europians constantly ignore this.

[@amosnaftali2495]

They’re not Serbians or Slavs smh

[@Downey-2000]

The Basque

[@secularist4058]

Modern Turks are their descendants, since they're just the assimilitated natives of Anatolia and the Hittite region. Great video👏

[@badlaamaurukehu]

Turks are a specific ethnic group.

[@philliphsieh83]

Hittite’s were sellouts for the world!

[@badlaamaurukehu]

Philistines were further south.

[@paveldatsyuk7175]

Trump supporters I thought did it

[@Blueice115]

Hittites are sons of Cain

[@antonfarquar8799]

how do you come to that conclusion?

[@twonumber22]

@@antonfarquar8799 Homeschooling would be my guess.

[@joek600]

@@twonumber22 lol

[@Downey-2000]

They are the Basque

[@Blueice115]

@@Downey-2000 No they aren't