Sphinx - Geheimnisse der Geschichte Versunkene Metropolen, Part 2 - Hattusa, Machtzentrale der Hettiter (1994– ) Online

Sphinx - Geheimnisse der Geschichte Versunkene Metropolen, Part 2 - Hattusa, Machtzentrale der Hettiter (1994– ) Online

The story of the search for the story of Hattusa, the lost capital of the long forgotten empire of the Hatti, alias Hettites, whose ruler was in its time strong enough to be recognized even by the mighty Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses II as his fellow Great King, and a remarkable feat of Bronze Age engineering complete with sewage, at an impractical but impregnable site in landlocked Central Asia Minor (now Anatolia, Asian Turkey). Archeological finds and cuneiform tablets, in both their own (long illegible, finally deciphered as Indo-European) and foreign languages in several well-stocked libraries, testify to the militarily superior technology, religion and mythology, court and army life, society and laws of the half a millennium long primordial, then completely obliterated people, and its surprisingly sudden, tragic end, presumably trough a fratricidal palace coup and arson during a dramatical famine.