Who were the Hittites? The history of the Hittite Empire explained in 10 minutes
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Judging by the thumbnail, they're a Bay Area metalband.
Hahahaha
you made my day
🤘 lol
Michaël Lejeune YA WELL DONT JUDGE CAUSE THEY AINT THAT.
Michaël Lejeune always a Slayer joke to be had.
The Hittite empire is not well know here in Brazil and history books often skip them (also the Mittani empire). This is crazy, the Hittite empire was one of the largest bronze age empire. Thankfully I played the original Age Of Empires as an early teen. Most of my history knowledge today came from AoE and Civilization games.
Same. Here in vn they didn't even mention the hittite. We only know the hittite exist because of aoe
I remember being a history buff since the 6th grade and now I observe how hallow the knowledge of ancient history we learn on the School, we only pass quickly by egypt, mesopotamia, greek, rome and just it, ver sad(mt triste)
E francamente, se falar sobre os Heteus/Hititas ninguém vai saber o que é, a antiguidade é muito subestimada
Any good civ games?
right? just discovered about them lol
The bronze age is epic
It is love it :D
Hopefully some epic movies TV shows come out set then one day
Achilles_Y
Not terribly accurate but we take what we can get
@kurd means strong stop stealing others people civilizations
@kurd means strong
Kurdish civilizations?! What is it exactly that makes such disparate peoples "Kurdish" in your opinion? For example, the Phoenicians were of Semitohamitic ancestry, speaking a Semitic language, the Sumerians are of unknown but pre-IE ancestry, the Hittites were an admixture of pre-IE Hattians and IE Hittites proper... There was no connection among those peoples in antiquity to begin with, let alone a remote connection with the Kurds nowadays. The Kurds are an Iranic people whose probable ancestry has something to do with the Medes, the Gordians (the 'Kardouchoi' mentioned by Xenophon) and maybe even the Hurrians (though it's practically impossible to tell with certainty)... But to retrospectively claim all those different peoples as Kurdish, is absurd!
Robustus not accurate but so cool
Hittitology student here: nice work! It's rare to find good and accurate content on the Hittites online, but you did very well with this video. Thank you for bringing my favourite civilisation to a wider audience!
PS: This is a bit nitpicky, but while Muršili II lost his wife and two brothers within the same year, it's unknown whether these deaths were caused by the plague or not. In his wife's case, it's likely it was something else, since her death was attributed to Muršili's stepmother cursing her.
PPS: Shameless self-promotion: I post recordings of ancient languages on my UA-cam channel, and have a couple of recordings of Hittite if you want to hear what it sounded like :)
If intersted...Rothman, quoted said...''All that was known in Mesopotamia came from Armenia and that Armenia is the absent fragment in the entire mosaic of the ancient world's civilization's construction. according to Anthropologist Mitchell S. Rothman regarding the extent of discoveries and specially on the quality of horse bones proved, According to him, that it was from the Shangavit Armenian 6000 years ago that the culture of that area spread around to the ancient world...
Professor Jensen also says. ‘For almost everything that is known in the Hittite language is Old Armenian in form..Historian Sayce 1845-1933) also consider Hittite and Armenian to be one and the same’. what some historians say...H.V. Hilprecht(1859-1925) a Clark research professor of Assyriology and scientific director Babylonian expedition at the University of Penn. argue that the Hittite tongue is Armenian and the Hittites themselves were of Armenian stock...according to Ellis (1861) through language analysis we observe that under the names of Phrygians, Thracians,Pelasgians and Etruscans spread westward from Armenia to Italy and Elis claimed that the closest affinities of the Aryan element are the Armenians ..other historians that agree are..Hellenthal, Busgy, Brand, Wilson, Myers and Falush...let me quote Merrick (2012) All religions are descended from and ancient Vedic cosmology described in the Rib - Veda, originating in Armenia near Mt. Ararat at least 6800 ys ago and the basic concepts of a transcendental mountain extending into space and populated planet Star-gods were developed...he further says...This Astrotheology then migrated with Armenian Aryans to found the Sumerian Ethiopian/Egyptian and Indian civilizations and religions...from Language as a fingerprint Setyan...
@@hikeoganessian9729 if you aren't armenian i'll believe you
@@hikeoganessian9729 The PURPOSE of THE BIBLE is For CORRECTION of human errors. .
@@hikeoganessian9729 Very well written. Humanitys gread and envy for their own use has altered the real human truth. They have all tried to erase Armenians so their own bs can come true. But, without succes. They " Babylon " and others almost erased the language and alphabeth but it was brought back.
Todays DNA reaserch has proven what we all once know that the result is identical to that of todays Armenians. So that puts, jews, muslims, greeks, babylons tower, turks etc etc in a jar with the lable bluff on it.
The is only 1 Astvaz for humanity and one kind that can call themselfs Anunnaki 🥳🥳🥳🥳
@@hikeoganessian9729 👏🏻The truth ☝🏻
Countries back then had such cool names....
History House Productions I think Bronze Age history is just the coolest in general.
Unique
@@TheTariqibnziyad yeah , wired how they pretend to be ancient !
@@TheTariqibnziyad Are you the offspring of cousin marriage?
@@TheTariqibnziyad I find it more interesting how triggered you are by the mere knowledge that a Kurd is in the same comment section as you. Not a Kurd bragging like an asshole, mind you--just a Kurd existing.
Really makes your comment look ironic, to say the least.
The Hittites were a culture that was so influential during the late bronze age, but doesn't get much press. Thank you for this video,
Nice!! I figured this video might be on the way. Awesome stuff. Gotta love those Hittites.
I do love be some Hittities
Hittites were Armenians... Georgians to this day call Armenians by that name.
@@vahekhar3230 georgians call armenians "somekhi"-სომეხი, what means south people. Nothing in commun with Kheta people. I do not pretend about Hittit People descendence or something like that but, in our phonetique it existes "Khatuna"-female name (also turkish "Katun" or "Khatun") and "zemokheti" and "qvemokheti" high and low Kheta (both small willages)... Strange thing but, it existes.
why
@@vahekhar3230 considering I'm a descendant we became hatty Lebanese
An interesting factoid about the Hittites is their early use of iron weapons. Although nearly not as prevalent as thought by earlier scholarship…a rare iron sword may have been used here and there (much of it meteoric iron. How cool would it be to have a sword made from meteorites! ) It is still debated how common it was in there empire. The more modern view seems to be very little was used and was more of a luxury item…there is a Hittite record of a vassal king “man of Burushanda” giving an iron throne as a gift in the early Hittite period. Iron was looked at as more of a luxury metal than utilitarian during the Bronze Age it seems-Had the bronze age not collapsed the iron age may have come much earlier.
In THERE empire?
Can u do one on the tribes of the berber people. I'm not sure if that's how u say it but thanks and great video bro keep up the good work
Also, I hear a lot about Ta-sati from certain "history channel" 🙄 on UA-cam and I failed to find any reliable sources to answer my questions.
Thank you and have a great day 😄
Epimetheus
can you do Phoenicans?
and more on Earlier European Farmers from Mesopotamia [ region ]
Epimetheus
They perhaps learned it from the Sea-people.
Speaking of the bronze age empire of the Chinese would be cool too
"THEN known as Halab"
It is still known as Halab to the Locals.
Just like Rome is Roma, and Cairo is Qahira etc.
rome is not roma idiot :D
Those “locals” inherited that word and it became culturally adopted. Kind of like the Celts “adopting” the dolmens and megaliths of Ireland and Briton even though they did not make them.
@@mindmesh7566 halab is a semetic word. I don't know wtf you are talking about?
Manly Man …OMG…Yeah I know it comes from a Semitic language…Like friggin Phoenician, Aramaic, Arabic, and that fascist cesspool to west over yonder next Egypt whom I refuse to mention.
@@mindmesh7566lol what the hell are you on dog?
The pharaoh's widow was actually Ankhesenamun, wife of Tutankhamen. She was most likely worried about getting booted from the palace as her husband died young and she never carried an heir to term. So her request to the Hittite king was bizarre to them but made sense to her; "give me a prince to make a royal heir with". The king even sent an emissary first to make sure she was being understood correctly, and she sent back a letter with him passing along her offense that she wasn't being believed/taken seriously.
And then history pulls a Franz Ferdinand.
Also, the auto-captions are Korean for some reason.
@@someguy2744 oh that's so
The Bronze Age really feels like something out of a sword and sorcery novel
True feels like Conan the barbarian with magic
Or maybe it’s the other way around 😅
From what I have read, for a very long time, the Hittites were virtually forgotten by the world and the only source that mentioned them came from the Bible until the archaeologists started rediscovering Hittite architectures in Anatolia.
True..the Bible talks about the neo-Hittites...the descendants of the Empire
The rediscovery of the Hittites actually began with Hittite sculpture rather than architecture. European scholars discovered Hittite rock reliefs in Syria and believed that they were Hittite, but had no proof of it until the translation of the Hittite texts.
This type of thorough history work is becoming increasingly difficult to find on the web. Thank you for this! ....Subbed.
He neglects to mention that the Hittites were the first people known who spoke an proto-Indo-Europeans language.
Thanks for putting that together. I'd just read an article about the Hittites' war chariots, and I was interested in learning something about the Hittites - but not so interested that I wanted to watch an hour-long documentary. So this was perfect.
Just found your channel. Glad I did! You're very thorough and wellread, my friend!
Great video. Packed with clear informtion and super helpful graphics. Well done.
Your channel is truly, one of the greatest.
Thanks, Martin!
This VIDEO IS NOT SCRIPTURAL!!! You used No bible or historic facts to prove this. When Scripture Says Heth is the Progenitor of The Hittites...
@@DeyCallmeBadnuzBytch ES UNA MIERDA
@@DeyCallmeBadnuzBytch Shut up.
Epimethius recently you have been pumping out some top notch work! if you keep this up ill have to be a patron in no time
I was waiting for your new bronze age video and I saw this uploaded 3 minutes ago. Thank you, keep doing your great job 🙂.
I’m brand new to this channel and really really loving it. This whole series really fills in the gap I’ve had about the Bronze Age!
Thank you! Glad you are enjoying it Isabel
Good to see someone with a facsination for history and yoga!
The Hittites only had two songs in the charts and often used sessionists for the more difficult solos.
Ghost musicians?
That's why they're often called "The Shittites"
So good dude. Your content is gripping.
Fantastic video. Great info, graphics and narration. Keep them coming.
Good job.
Simple, well organized, and concise...
Marks of great craftsmanship skills...
Hittite jumpscare.
Lets give it up for Supiluliyuma and the hittites! With their smash hit: money, women and gold.
Amazing video. Just excellent. The Hittites are some of my favorite civilizations to study. Their chariots were so awesome, just think about the chariot is awesome. I learned today they were even more interesting. Also, its funny how some people are nearly hyper realistic paintings and some are stickmen in your videos. Great art
You make spectacular vids my friend
I LOVE ancient history, especially the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age! Now I love this channel! It’s a great refresher. Thanks!
Ancient history us the best part of history
Your bronze age videos are my favorite.
Mine too.
The Hittites learned from ancient Semitic civilizations such as Babylon, Assyria and ancient Egypt, and were very influenced by the civilizations of ancient Iraq. Although the Hittites are Indo-European peoples, it shows you the extent to which human peoples learn from each other ❤️❤️
The ancient Egyptians were of the indo-european language family and shared common ancestors with neolithic Europeans. (Latins, Celts, Slavs, Germanics, Greeks, etc.)
@@lochnessmonster5149 Nope , Ancient Egyptians speak afro Asiatic language and they're Probably descendents of sub Saharans and semite people.
@@erennn1620 semitic is a branch of afro asiatic tho so they are related
@@erennn1620 egyptians speaked afro asiatic and were related to tamazigh, west asians and southeastern europeans
Gene D. Matlock - What Strange Mystery Unites the Turkish Nations, India, Catholicism, and Mexico?
In a book about the history of ancient Turkic Afghanistan, I found such biblical personages as King David, Saul, Adam and Eve, Goliath, and even Solomon. However, in the Afghan account, Goliath was riding on an elephant when David knocked him off the elephant. The Afghan account mentioned that after being banished from Eden, Adam went to Ceylon or what is now Sri Lanka (Serendipity). Eve went to Jiddah, in Arabia. (Ref: History of The Afghans, by Khwaja Neamat Ullah.) It was painfully difficult for me to challenge, weaken and anesthetize my previous religious conditionings. After all, I was born Christian and still am. But I remained strong and resolute in my quest. I did not overlook any kind of anomaly, such as the strange similarities between Brahm-Abraham, Sarah-Saraisvati, and Hakra (Hagar?). I also found other Noahs and several Moseses in Hindu myths, but the Hindus say that many of the myths in their holy books occurred in Central Asia, especially in Siberia, ancestral home of all the Turkish peoples. Even the biblical Hindu Hittites and Amorites, the fathers and mothers of Jerusalem, also Abraham and Sarah, were Turks. If one cannot accept that the Hittites and Amorites were Turkish Krishtayas, he’ll never get any sense out of the Bible.
Thanks for the history! Loved the video...curious as to what time period was the plague that the Hittites brought back from Egypt? Or do u have timeline video? I semi looked through your playlist but u have A LOT of interesting videos but I cant tell. I'm looking for easy to comprehend Ancient Near East history videos. Thanks again!
These animations are great lol. Always interesting information.
Hey! I'm a huge fan, I could watch you all day!
Great video! I’ve been loving this Bronze Age series! It would seem that someone’s been reading Eric Cline’s book, “1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed.”
Saw a documentary which suggested that the Hittite Empire actually broke up due to internal division, and they vacated their capital, burning it as they left. What is sure, is that the burning process helped preserve the clay tablets in the Library of Hattusa, containing the Hittite diplomatic correspondence. Quiz question, did anyone spot the Hittite reference in the original King Kong film?
Thank you greatly for this information about the Hittites throughout my life I've tried to uncover these Mysteries as I go but never had the time to laser focus like you have thank you so much I will be watching and re-watching this it is fascinating and I am putting my faith in you + your research..
Very good. Lots of info packed into a 10 min vid 👍🏽
Awesome work, thank you for this gem
Very interesting encapsulation of Hittite history. Done in only 10 minutes it was excellent.
Your videos are great and informative. I really enjoy watching them and hearing your other voices representing the group you are primarily talking about. The Archaeological history about the Hittites is equally astonishing. Very few people know today that around one or two hundred years ago, the Hittites, were considered fables in the Old Testament as there was no real record of their existence until Archaeology proved their existence. I'm kinda shocked you didn't mention this in your video about them. Some consider it to be an astonishing moment in history when one of the few times that the Bible was proved to be right on a given topic....namely the fact that they existed.
Nice video. I've always been fascinated by the Hittites, but never knew much about them.
You sir, get a sub.
Very good EP, I enjoyed that very much.
I thought that this video containing Hittite Jumpscare
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Huh, school hasn't taught me this yet. I was wondering what was happening in Anatolia during those times. Thanks for sharing such great information!
I scrolled through your channel I will definitely be watching videos you put a lot of great work into videos..God bless you
Loved the video man! Always great to see new history channels popping up.
I love all these ancient civilizations. I always see the Elamites on your videos, but haven't found a video about them.
ua-cam.com/video/z3MIT6Xb4WY/v-deo.html
Elimite is what the doctor prescribes when you have the crabs--or so I've heard.
Wow, great job on sharing this story.
Great video, once more. Thank you!
I did enjoy those other videos and this one, thanks :)
Informative, beautiful and very nicely done, 10 minutes of happiness on a wonderful subject...Makes me want to repaint my Hittite figurines army ... and to subscribe ...Done 👍👍👍
Awesome...painted some foundry Assyrians back in the day, also a few Egyptian chariots. 28mm stuff is so cool
@@EpimetheusHistory Well, 15mm for me (ouch, my poor eyes!), but Hittites and Egyptian chariots are one of my favourite figures...Once again congrats for your vid!
Go on, you know you want to.
History of the bronze age is like fantasy to me. Don't really know the reason, but I am simple overwhelmed by it. Thanks for the videos m8.
You have a good history voice!
Really enjoyed this no-nonsense approach
Thank you :)
Hittites and other Anatolians Hellenized than Turkified. Making Cappadocian Greeks, Anatolian Turks, some individuals of other nearby ethnicities, and Pontic Greeks descendants of Anatolians like the Hittites. Though some individuals do to interethnic marriage in family tree from nearby land areas also descend partially from Hittites and related Anatolian peoples.
@Helios Megistos no I'm not saying Hittites are Turk.
Though they have mix with Turks and Greeks.
Turks from that one southwest Turkey province have up to 35% Medieval Oghuz dna and the rest is Anatolian or Greek.
I'm talking about Illustrative dna sources btw.
So mixing has happened.
But Hittites, Luwains, Carians and other Bronze Age Anatolian populations, ARE NOT!!! Turkic.
@Helios Megistos alright.
@@Evansdrad8515Central Asian Turkic DNA very rare in Turkey mostly people Anatolian as I am
I don't know why exactly, but Suppilulma is a name I can't say with a straight face.
KTChamberlain I am betting you would be able to manage a straight face if you were suddenly in Suppilulma's court, prostrate before his throne, with all his court torturers rubbing their fingers while looking at you. It is all just a matter of perspective!
"Subbiluliuma". Or if you must, "Suppiluliuma". But the most recent Hittite scholarship trying to figure out how to pronounce Hittite words leans towards voiced ('b') consonants when internal to a word, and voiceless ('p') at the beginning or end of a word.
And the reason you can't say it with a straight face is because it's funny as hell. :-)
Next up for don't laugh: Pudu-Hepa, wife of Hattusili (or Haddusili) III.
skip to my lou my darling
Bramble451 Puda-Hepa was Babylonian wasn’t she?
KTChamberlain I’m guess that his contemporaries couldn’t either. That’s why he was such an angry individual.
Really interesting....you were very good presenting this video, I will check out your other videos........
Thank you for this superb video. This is helping me with my study of the Hittite language.
Great vid bro! Again with amazing art, I always heard the Hitties were infamous for their warfare. Fun fact Uriah (one of King Davids men) was a hittie...
Wow, I forgot about that. Nice!
@@will2003michael2003 oh...
@lobsterbale Legesse really? I always saw them as Asiatic middle-easterns...
@lobsterbale Legesse They were Caucasoid people.
@lobsterbale Legesse What do you mean they were "described" as proto-mongoloid on Egyptian walls? If you're referring to their eye shapes.....the Egyptians had a way of exaggerating facial features so that the eyes appeared at time to be very slanted and almost shaped, ALMOST mongoloid. But not every Caucasian has big round eyes like the Greeks tended to have!
There is no evidence that the Hittites had anything to do with the mongoloid race. Mongoloids have a different history from Europeans and Western Asiatics and a completely different culture, as a whole.
Good video! Could have been excellent with references and bibliography. My interest on the Hittites was whipped up by this video.
Good work. Much appreciated.
@@Elizabeth Porter: "was" or "is"? Perhaps you should've post your query as a primary and independent post/comment, not nested it within mine?
Anyway, you could refer to wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hittites and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Turkey
Thank you.
Great video.
Can you do one about thracians?
Good job.
I learned a lot
Oh whoa... Hittites are early Klingons...
Will subscribe. Love your soothing voice and the way you tell the history of different groups. I'm aHistory buff myself and love the info. you provided!
Thank you for Subbing Vanessa :)
Thank you so very much for sharing this information.
Good Sir, I LOVE your channel. Thank you so much for bringing light to all these topics. I'm not sure if you'd like to see requests but for what it's worth, I'd love to see you tackle the history of Carthage? I'm aware you're looking to deal with the lesser known parts of ancient history, so if Carthage is too "hip" for your channel ;P perhaps a video on Phoenicia then? In any case thank you for your work, I am addicted to these videos
Aleppo is still known as Halab, as it was always. Aleppo is a forigen way to say it.
Aleppo - Halabbo - Halab
Habbo Hotel
Enthused Norseman Pools closed
Nexus-7
The other way around
Yeah, Ancient Greece treated the h sound only something you can write with an accent mark, not given a letter of its own. And even that was later dropped.
Liked and subbed👍 Do you have videos about the Scythians and the Huns?
They are Turkic ancestors
Great info..thank you for sharing!
Love the way you explained it
this is where i from guys. hattusas ruins is 100 km away from my city
Lucky
I did my ancestry DNA and I have Cyprus and greek DNA along with much middle eastern it all makes sense
@The Martial Lord of Loyalty word bro
neo İlbasan where are u from? My family is from Corum and its very near the place where they found the Hitit civilization
@@Aemond2024 go cry somewhere else. Not under my comment.
Great video!
Very interesting, I like the artwork used!👍
I LOVE THIS CHANNEL!!!
Years ago I visited the remains of Hattusa and was intrigued by the Hittites and I still wonder if they are connected with the Etruscans who are believed to have migrated from the Turkish inland to Italy, or if this group belonged to one of the subdued kingdoms of the Hittites…
imagine these guys surviving the Collapse how would they interract with the Romans
Or Persia or alexander
@@craigmason9893 yeah them too though now that think of it I feel like by the time the Romans came the Hittites would've just been merceneries to the Seleucids
It seems they (or other related Anatolian peoples) survived as distinct ethnic groups until the Hellenistic era: The Isaurians were likely the last surviving group.
Their language is closely related to Latin . And the Latins didn’t come into Italy till 1200 kinda weird
@@histatimaniples not as closely related to Latin as Gaullish is
Discovered you on Bitchute. Keep making great content
Thoroughly enjoyed the video.
Your actually great for covering such great but less spoken of history
Nice video can you do persian and medians origins 👍🏻
Awesome. if i can ask, i want you to make one about Lydia
You can visit Çorum in modern day Turkey to learn more about Hittites. Çorumites are direct descendants of Hittites. Some even claim royal Hittite blood in them.
It must the Byzantines; they lived for eleven centuries there. Or Hellenistic kingdom before them. Or Alexander the Great. Where were your forefathers then? Guess! Somewhere in the steeppes of Central Asia. Don't fool yourself.
@@vassilopoulaStupid, Anatolian Turks are mix of Native Anatolians and Oghuz Turks.
Oh and Anatolian Turks have more "Hittitie DNA" than Greeks.
Suppiluliuma: greatest name in bronze age history
Suppiluliuma is mean White in kurdish
And hittitans are kurd!! 💥
Suppiluliuma is mean White in kurdish
And hittitans are kurd!! 💥
@pan-islamist national socialist turkije. Ha siktir lan bok
Spirulina is good for health
Such a hippie name 🤣
I really love everything about this channel! Wish I could see your presentation of the Hebraic and Israelite people who ended up becoming the Jews, the Christians and the Muslims. I know that you like to cover uncover overlooked histories but I'm sure there are aspects of history that are perpetually overlooked. I especially would like to know the connection between the Hebraic people, Sumerian, Hittites, Assyrians, Babylonians, Phoenicians, Canaanite people's & Persians, pre-Islamic Arabians...
The Israelites used to go to war against the hittites
Hittite jumpscare
Awesome and entertaining as always.s o the Egypt ians knew the use of bioweapons or is it just a coincidence.
Thanks man!
Most likely coincidence...but never know
Kemet Egypt knew most medicine we know today in its natural Form. It was alchemy capital in those days. They did their war time study well to lure Supilluliuma send his son to Egypt only to be killed as fugitive.
Great video! Do one on Dravidians and their origins.
I love history ..,I really enjoyed ,thank you
I like ancient history much more than medieval history and everything that comes after, theres just something about the ancoent civilizations that make them so cool
i really loved this video it shows how societies were complicated even in the bronze age
Thanks a lot bro
Brilliant, thanks!
Thank you very much...very educative
Cool looking costumes.
I'd like a view of their closet collections.
I first found out about Hittites in age of empires 1 demo campaign. I was starting high school back then and I never heard about them before and the information was hard to come by, since they weren't famous like Sumerians or Egyptians.
The same as i. Since the aoe1 demo these where my favourite ancient culture and i am looking forward to play as them in Total War Pharao
Excellent vid but I do have a recommendation. Maybe you could zoom out the map pic for better reference and maybe even show a modern day representation of countries in the map?
Good stuff !
I visited the Hittite capital and satellite sites a few years ago. Great place to visit, as is Turkey in general. You can wander around the sites, mostly unrestricted. Bogazakale town, which has a nice museum and accommodations, is right next to the capital, very close to Yazilikkaya, and not too far from Alacahoyuk. Highly recommended (along with Gordium, Catalhoyuk, and Gobekli Tepe -- other ancient places in Turkey that are not as tourist-frequented).
I would love to visit that sooooo much. I visited Turkey a few years ago for a couple weeks and loved it. But I did not get to see any Hittite sites...I did see artifacts in the museum though which was really cool.