I just love the idea of ancient lions roaming those hills. Your average Hittite cow herder would have probably hated the damn things...But I've always loved the old Mycenaean, Hittite, and Assyrian lion imagery. The Anatolian plateau seems much greener than I always pictured it. That makes sense, since a good part of human agriculture basically started right around there, somewhere, and that verdant fertility that once fed an Empire now makes poppies burst over the crumbling walls. Far out, man. I just love history.
Upon closer examination, we can also see the inscriptions, "O Hittites! You worship your storm god indoors like a bunch of pansies and your cities sound like sneezes". Below which is a rather rude drawing of a man who seems to be pointing toward the general region of his lap, with the caption, "Put this in your postern gate!" The man's headgear and the general artistic style of the drawing shows similarities to contemporary Sardinian imagery.
The little space heater at 19.08 is like the under table heaters used in Spain Today we have calor or electric ones but before the artival of electricity metal ones were used to burn charcoal. They are placed under the table which is covered with a thick cloth reaching to the ground. Everyone tucks their legs under the cloth to get warm. They are brilliant. Much of the Spanish countryside, like the area I live in just 50k from Malaga city, was without electricity or piped water until about 30 years ago.
Have experienced this in Spain, can confirm, they are brilliant. Cozy and convivial. I believe Japan has a similar under-table heater, from anime representations.
@@pattheplanter Yes, they are called 'kotatsu', and they crop up in anime a lot. It's because they instantly evoke nostalgia for a time when all the family would sit round for a meal and watch TV together on cold winter evenings - all cozy together under the kotatsu! I'll bet the Spanish ones have a similar vibe.
I like that they replaced anything removed from the site with a reproduction so you still get the affect of how it was in situ. I think this might be a good solution to the damage done from exposure & tourism especially in Egypt where many tombs are no longer accessible to the public. There are growing concerns about Pompei as well.
Türkiye is the wonderland of ancient archaeological sites. It is not only one civilizations but many. From ancient Greek to Hittites and from Assyrians to Urrartians and Romans to the Turks as the last inhabitant of these lands in the past millennia. I am myself from Aegean part of Türkiye and you can see ruins and ancient cities in every 10-20 kms from Romans, Carians, Luvi, Lycians, Ionians etc. If you love the history and amazing charm of the ancient sites. Türkiye is for you.
Absolutely loves this ine. Hittite civilization is one of my favorite subjects along with Egypt. But I must say, in slightly upset you didn't introduce us to your two white puppy guides from the beginning of the video.
Totally agree. I love these videos. They make me fantasize a lot about the past, but also the present. For instance, I can see Dave is HITTITIN' on Tess right in front of us. But I wonder if there's more happening behind our Baalbek...
I loved the faces on the two sphinxes about 35 minutes in! To me, they looked like older ladies or goddesses. What a great video! I love ancient history, its a lifelong passion, but knew little about the Hittites. The scenery is so lovely there, with the red poppies and lush greenery. 💖
Thank you! This is the type of video that I enjoy; I spend a great deal of time watching UA-cam and interesting videos are getting harder to find. Your video tours are very well done, your presentation very informative.. I look forward to the next ones.
This series has been greatly interesting and entertaining!! Been on an ancient kick for a several weeks and was only familiar with your solo/ explainer vids. Found these today and I'm hooked! Such good. You two are lucky. Thank you 🤠
34:29 - Can you build a replica of these? - Yes, of course. Very cheap. - And will it look same as the orginal? - Yes, we have a fantastic new material. - Sounds good, you've got the job.
Amazing stuff once again. I think I'd be very pleased in a very hipstery way if I got a chance to see these remains which most people don't get a chance to visit. Your videos have convinced me to start planning!
I really enjoy your travel series (I enjoy ALL your uploads). Also wanted to say, good choice on picking Tess to join you. She seems friendly and down to earth. 👍
Gday Doctor Miano I would love to make the suggestion that on your next trip you should consider taking a geologist or a teacher of geology seems it would be quite handy with all the different types of stone at these ancient sites I would also love to let you know that my husband and I adore your channel we absolutely need more of your interesting, factual, informative and educational content we LOVE IT!!!
Your new intro is very nice! I’m sad to say my knowledge of the Hittites comes primarily through my seminary/parochial school classes as a kid and I don’t feel confident in it. I had never realized there were still such fantastic ruins surviving
Thankyou for such a fascinating educational tour of the Hittite world. I have learned about these places and the people that lived there but have never seen what they look like in real life. Having now done so (via technology 😊) it helps to bring what I’ve learned to life. I look forward to the next episode.
Great Britain grooms their archaeological sites by letting sheep graze on them. It means you have to be a bit careful while walking around, but is very effective.
What a great, entertaining, informative and also tounge in cheeks funny video man! You did everything right and even included an awesome blonde woman in the thumbnail! I wish and really hope that this gives you at least 100, if not 1000 subscribers more!!! thanks for the upload! and keep up the great work!!!👍🏻
My thanks again to you and Tess for another great travel adventure. Seeing you two tromp through those high weeds (poppies) I expect there will be some new crop circle sighting found on Google Earth. :)
Thank you David and Tess. These sculptures at the gates 28:39 & 34:29 Would they have been painted in bright colours, like those we know of that the Greeks and Romans erected? P.S. I really enjoy your videos. Especially these trips, as they give me ideas for my own plans to visit areas of the ancient world that fascinate me. Thank you so much. Lee.
I now live in Spain. Olives are put on the table as a matter of course in restaurants when you order a meal. Or sometimes even tapas if there is a group. But holiday towns charge for bread and olives.
They are always sold out. I've been trying to buy the antique print for over a year. Still very cool globes I hope to own the one I want one day. I'll be using the code here for sure!! 👌 💯
Thanks to all four of you for this video, it was greatly appreciated :-) I was eager to see Hatti thru your camera and now I just have to muster enough resources (time and others) to afford a trip to Hattuša. Prof. Miano, I have a question, or maybe two. Have you visited Kanish (Nesha), too? I think it should be somewhere near present-day Kultepe but perhaps a little farther from Hattuša. And if you folks were there, how does it look like? The second one is about Kuššara where the whole story of Hittites started off. Do we know already where it was placed, and if there's anything of Kuššara that can be seen? Thank you once again.
If only I could have afforded the time off on order to visit places like that when I was capable of walking such distances and hills. Now, I've got plenty of time, but will never afford such a trip. Still, I always have Dr. Miano's videos to enjoy vicariously! ❤
The cyclopean architecture, here as with other places, has two walls. The same was echoed in England, with round large stone structures in which the space between the walls had multiple uses, too. I just find these designs fascinating and brilliant 😊
You can't help to see that their aesthetic was somewhat rudimentary in comparison to the Egyptian, Mesopotamian or Minoan contemporary ones. They were perhaps more warriors than artists.
As the late summer turns to Autumn upon the high Anatolian plateau, there is no placeles as gorgeous in all the world. The ruins of the Hittite Capital city of Hattussas are a wonderment to behold in late August when the grass is tawney and the hills are turning into greengold. Where the tall poplars are greengold and the ancient rocks seem blue in the shining wherever they are exposed under a decling sun even at mid day. My time spent at Hattussas will haunt me for as how lonely I felt there, having the whole place to myself for a morning until evening all day long upon a late August 2002 I will go back in winter upon some day to gather a feel for how the Hittite kings yearned for lands southward Edit: none of those reconstructions existed when I visited. The entire sight was a bare sloping ground up toward the city gates which were ruins but stood 3 meters tall. Only a few remnants stood tall enough to call monumental. I am very curious to know how these reconstructions will be curated. The city's outlines and internal walls were all exposed rubble when I was there. I had a hard time delineating what was what. I hope the sight has not been explained away from the mystery that it once was.
IIRC, the Hittites had some naval battles with other powers at the time. I think the engraving related to a naval battle over Cyprus was probably against the Egyptians. Although the Phoenician cities probably had some run-ins too. Especially since Egypt and Hatti vied for control over them.
Hittites didn’t have naval army. They used their Vassal’s (Lukka & Ugarit) naval army. Hittite & Alashiya (Cyprus) naval battle was world’s first recorded naval battle.
It's amazing to see how far you've come, David - sincerely an OG! 🫡 Thank you for spreading factual information about our history and combating the misinformation out there
The Hattian capital Hattusa was totally destroyed by the king of Kussara ,Anitta, and he put a curse upon the city and everyone who tried to rebuild it. That text is one of the earliest indo-european texts ever discovered. Ironic that his relatives the Hittites later rebuild the city and made it their capital.Even during Hittite empire era the city was destroyed more than once by the Kaskans and other forces. There is a gap between Anitta era and the beginning of the Hittite Empire.Was Labarna (the first Hittite king) related to him?
I dont have a globe. I love maps though. I have an atlas. I have a coffee table book of maps but best of all are my UK ordnance survey maps. They are vital for the serious hiker. With a compass as well of course.
If you want to know the Hittite language, you can go to the North Caucasus to the city of Maikop in the Republic of Circassia in the Russian Federation, they are the original peoples of the Hittites and even now they speak the ancient Hittite language, and you have to look at their culture in dress and dance, you will feel that you see this ancient civilization in front of you.
Great Hittite Empire’s sudden vanishing is still unknown. After collapse around 1200 bc Clicia and Carcemish region Hittite people remained. But Iron age Neo-Hittite states (Clicia and Carchemish region) inscriptions didn’t write anything about collapse of the empire. Also orthostads dont mention. After 50 or 100 years later (Around 1.100 bc) of the collapse of Hittites, Mainland (Central Anatolia) of the Hittite empire filled with Phrygians. Phrygians lived in small groups as village settlements for about 300 years. Phrygians turned in to a state nearly after 300 years of coming to Anatolia. They established the city Gordion around 9th century bc. It seems there is not much interaction happened between Hittites and Phrygians. This seems strange since culturally Hittites were dominating people. I am really curious what happened to the central Anatolian Hittite people and Hittite royal family between the period 1177bc-900bc. Remaining of Hittite people should have been took a important roles in Phrygian state. But it seems this was not happen. Great Hittite empire’s knowledge was not transferred to followings. It seems it was huge time waist to establish the knowledge again (300 years dark age).
One theory, or better, just hypothesis that I've heard of says that the Hattushans burnt their city to the ground themselves and moved all the way to Syria where they found the so-called neo-Hittite states. I don't know if there are any remains of such a big fire left.
I imagine that in a couple of thousand years someone will be talking about the ruins of the United States this way. Crumbling statues and worn away inscriptions. A lot of things along the coast will probably be lost. Monuments like Mt Rushmore will probably still exist. Unless a group like the Taliban gets there first. The Taliban blew up the Buddhas of Bamiyan.
Cheese is important for breakfast. It binds you up for the rest of the day so you don't have to go looking for a secluded tree for relief, or dare to test the old public toilets found in the ruins of some cuiltures.
Well, the thumb's an electronic sub-ether device, the roundabout's at Barnard's Star, six light-years away, but otherwise that's more or less it.@@SuperUAP
Hittites took over from the Hatti - even usurped their very name and incorporated the Hatti culture as their own - they were an Indo-European society and I think Hittite is the earliest known written Indo-European language.
I don't think they called themselves "Hittites". Their language (the "Hittite" as we named it) was referred to as "nishili" or something after the city of Nesha (Kanesh). But yes, in the cuneiform record they mostly wrote "The Land of Hatti" for the core of their empire. And Egyptians called them "Khet" or "Khat". Now that i think of it, what was the name of Egypt in hieroglyphic? Was it "Khemet" or something like that? I cannot remember well anymore.
The name of Egypt meant "land of black soil" if I remember correctly it was something like "khemet". Interesting to investiagate how it got the Greco-Latin-English name of "Aegyptum/Egypt" and its present Arabic name of Misr and the Jews called it "Mizraim" which would be related to "Misr"@@SCUIRPB
I am under the impression Turkey is doing an amazing job with Archaeology tourism. What a great site.
I just love the idea of ancient lions roaming those hills. Your average Hittite cow herder would have probably hated the damn things...But I've always loved the old Mycenaean, Hittite, and Assyrian lion imagery. The Anatolian plateau seems much greener than I always pictured it. That makes sense, since a good part of human agriculture basically started right around there, somewhere, and that verdant fertility that once fed an Empire now makes poppies burst over the crumbling walls. Far out, man. I just love history.
Hittites are my "favourite" ancient civ. Don't know why but I find them fascinating!
The hieroglyphs in the tunnel say, loosely translated:
"Take that, S**tittes! Ha Ha Ha! - The Sea People"
Upon closer examination, we can also see the inscriptions, "O Hittites! You worship your storm god indoors like a bunch of pansies and your cities sound like sneezes".
Below which is a rather rude drawing of a man who seems to be pointing toward the general region of his lap, with the caption, "Put this in your postern gate!" The man's headgear and the general artistic style of the drawing shows similarities to contemporary Sardinian imagery.
I'm gonna have to say citation freaking needed on those claims, LOL!
lol@@rickb1973
The little space heater at 19.08 is like the under table heaters used in Spain
Today we have calor or electric ones but before the artival of electricity metal ones were used to burn charcoal.
They are placed under the table which is covered with a thick cloth reaching to the ground. Everyone tucks their legs under the cloth to get warm. They are brilliant.
Much of the Spanish countryside, like the area I live in just 50k from Malaga city, was without electricity or piped water until about 30 years ago.
Have experienced this in Spain, can confirm, they are brilliant. Cozy and convivial. I believe Japan has a similar under-table heater, from anime representations.
@@pattheplanter
Yes, they are called 'kotatsu', and they crop up in anime a lot. It's because they instantly evoke nostalgia for a time when all the family would sit round for a meal and watch TV together on cold winter evenings - all cozy together under the kotatsu!
I'll bet the Spanish ones have a similar vibe.
@@loopernoodling Thanks. I couldn't remember the name and was not quite sure how to look them up.
You mean 19:08 ,right?
I like that they replaced anything removed from the site with a reproduction so you still get the affect of how it was in situ. I think this might be a good solution to the damage done from exposure & tourism especially in Egypt where many tombs are no longer accessible to the public. There are growing concerns about Pompei as well.
Ok I normally skip sponsored ads but as a huuuge astronomy buff those globes are so cool. If they do maps of planets I might actually get one
Hey, I would buy rotating flat plane, just because :D
Wonderful series, well-made video and great information. Many of these places I have never seen, thank you and the team who are making these happen.
welcome to Türkiye guys!
Türkiye is the wonderland of ancient archaeological sites. It is not only one civilizations but many. From ancient Greek to Hittites and from Assyrians to Urrartians and Romans to the Turks as the last inhabitant of these lands in the past millennia. I am myself from Aegean part of Türkiye and you can see ruins and ancient cities in every 10-20 kms from Romans, Carians, Luvi, Lycians, Ionians etc. If you love the history and amazing charm of the ancient sites. Türkiye is for you.
Absolutely loves this ine. Hittite civilization is one of my favorite subjects along with Egypt. But I must say, in slightly upset you didn't introduce us to your two white puppy guides from the beginning of the video.
Totally agree. I love these videos. They make me fantasize a lot about the past, but also the present. For instance, I can see Dave is HITTITIN' on Tess right in front of us. But I wonder if there's more happening behind our Baalbek...
I loved the faces on the two sphinxes about 35 minutes in! To me, they looked like older ladies or goddesses. What a great video! I love ancient history, its a lifelong passion, but knew little about the Hittites. The scenery is so lovely there, with the red poppies and lush greenery. 💖
this series has been so good thank you for putting it all together !!!
Thank you! This is the type of video that I enjoy; I spend a great deal of time watching UA-cam and interesting videos are getting harder to find. Your video tours are very well done, your presentation very informative.. I look forward to the next ones.
Thanks, David and Tess for giving some greater dimension to my understanding of the Hittites. Great video.
Loved this video of Hattusa. Turkey is so interesting. Would love to go there! Thanks!
This series has been greatly interesting and entertaining!! Been on an ancient kick for a several weeks and was only familiar with your solo/ explainer vids. Found these today and I'm hooked! Such good. You two are lucky. Thank you 🤠
34:29 - Can you build a replica of these?
- Yes, of course. Very cheap.
- And will it look same as the orginal?
- Yes, we have a fantastic new material.
- Sounds good, you've got the job.
My daughter & I have a blast watching these. 😊
Fabulous video and series.....my favorite, so far.
Wow, what a wonderful feature. I loved this. Hittites are my one of my major obsessions. This is fantastic. Next is Cappadocia!!!!!!!!🤩🤩 ❤❤❤❤
I love to see these super old empire buildings. Turkey ruins were some of the first to draw my attention when I was in my 20's.
Thank you for another amazing episode!
Production quality is A Grade, as good as and in some cases better than documentaries.
You ain't him dawg
All those wild green lush pastures look so beautiful, especially in the wind! thanks for sharing!
Amazing stuff once again. I think I'd be very pleased in a very hipstery way if I got a chance to see these remains which most people don't get a chance to visit. Your videos have convinced me to start planning!
I love the Hittite stonework. So cool. Great video.
Amazing .. at 08:20 you see a pillar depicted and I think its the same pillar at Göbekli tepe in Urfa
Thanks!
And thank you!
I really enjoy your travel series (I enjoy ALL your uploads). Also wanted to say, good choice on picking Tess to join you. She seems friendly and down to earth. 👍
This is one of my top travel destinations to see someday. Thanks for the preview! :D
Another great series :)
Absolutely amazing scenery, never mind the ancient architecture and sculptures.
Great upload again.
Love it ❤
Gday Doctor Miano I would love to make the suggestion that on your next trip you should consider taking a geologist or a teacher of geology seems it would be quite handy with all the different types of stone at these ancient sites
I would also love to let you know that my husband and I adore your channel we absolutely need more of your interesting, factual, informative and educational content we LOVE IT!!!
Doc always out here with these gorgeous travel companions.
Your new intro is very nice! I’m sad to say my knowledge of the Hittites comes primarily through my seminary/parochial school classes as a kid and I don’t feel confident in it. I had never realized there were still such fantastic ruins surviving
Underground Hittite spaces are right up my alley! 😊
How exciting! Hattusa! And next! I can't even! 😊
I really enjoy your travel series. Looks such fun & your knowledge is the perfect travel companion! Thankyou so much 😊❤
Thankyou for such a fascinating educational tour of the Hittite world. I have learned about these places and the people that lived there but have never seen what they look like in real life. Having now done so (via technology 😊) it helps to bring what I’ve learned to life. I look forward to the next episode.
Great Britain grooms their archaeological sites by letting sheep graze on them. It means you have to be a bit careful while walking around, but is very effective.
What a great, entertaining, informative and also tounge in cheeks funny video man! You did everything right and even included an awesome blonde woman in the thumbnail! I wish and really hope that this gives
you at least 100, if not 1000 subscribers more!!! thanks for the upload! and keep up the great work!!!👍🏻
Love the new quality
My thanks again to you and Tess for another great travel adventure. Seeing you two tromp through those high weeds (poppies) I expect there will be some new crop circle sighting found on Google Earth. :)
Excellent series , am really enjoying it. Top notch.
You worked well to give an idea of the size of the city.
Thank you David and Tess.
These sculptures at the gates 28:39 & 34:29 Would they have been painted in bright colours, like those we know of that the Greeks and Romans erected?
P.S. I really enjoy your videos. Especially these trips, as they give me ideas for my own plans to visit areas of the ancient world that fascinate me.
Thank you so much.
Lee.
I think it is likely, but I don't know if they found traces.
I now live in Spain. Olives are put on the table as a matter of course in restaurants when you order a meal. Or sometimes even tapas if there is a group.
But holiday towns charge for bread and olives.
Ain't you lucky.... Visiting my favourite spots. Thank you, I've also learned a lot from your videos. Thanks for the tour. 😊❤👍
3:52 oooofff audio needs a bleep there .. who was she referring to ?
Thanks Dr Miano & Tess,
I always enjoy the ride to the sites.
Tfsharing 💜
This was much better than I expected.
23:08 my gosh that looks so good.
15 minutes and the globes are all sold out lol
I’m in the wrong business.
Dammm.. wait really?
Yeah there's almost none left
Flat earth took a hit.
They are always sold out. I've been trying to buy the antique print for over a year. Still very cool globes I hope to own the one I want one day. I'll be using the code here for sure!! 👌 💯
Looking forward to this series a lot
Thanks to all four of you for this video, it was greatly appreciated :-) I was eager to see Hatti thru your camera and now I just have to muster enough resources (time and others) to afford a trip to Hattuša.
Prof. Miano, I have a question, or maybe two. Have you visited Kanish (Nesha), too? I think it should be somewhere near present-day Kultepe but perhaps a little farther from Hattuša. And if you folks were there, how does it look like?
The second one is about Kuššara where the whole story of Hittites started off. Do we know already where it was placed, and if there's anything of Kuššara that can be seen?
Thank you once again.
If only I could have afforded the time off on order to visit places like that when I was capable of walking such distances and hills. Now, I've got plenty of time, but will never afford such a trip.
Still, I always have Dr. Miano's videos to enjoy vicariously! ❤
Thank you, it was wonderful.
I have an archimedes drill im my silversmithing toolbox. A smaller version of the stone drill mentioned at 26.03
The cyclopean architecture, here as with other places, has two walls.
The same was echoed in England, with round large stone structures in which the space between the walls had multiple uses, too.
I just find these designs fascinating and brilliant 😊
I’ve been to both places but during the grueling times of winter. Would love to go again during warmer times.
This is top shelf content, thanks.
You can't help to see that their aesthetic was somewhat rudimentary in comparison to the Egyptian, Mesopotamian or Minoan contemporary ones. They were perhaps more warriors than artists.
As the late summer turns to Autumn upon the high Anatolian plateau, there is no placeles as gorgeous in all the world. The ruins of the Hittite Capital city of Hattussas are a wonderment to behold in late August when the grass is tawney and the hills are turning into greengold. Where the tall poplars are greengold and the ancient rocks seem blue in the shining wherever they are exposed under a decling sun even at mid day.
My time spent at Hattussas will haunt me for as how lonely I felt there, having the whole place to myself for a morning until evening all day long upon a late August 2002
I will go back in winter upon some day to gather a feel for how the Hittite kings yearned for lands southward
Edit: none of those reconstructions existed when I visited. The entire sight was a bare sloping ground up toward the city gates which were ruins but stood 3 meters tall. Only a few remnants stood tall enough to call monumental. I am very curious to know how these reconstructions will be curated.
The city's outlines and internal walls were all exposed rubble when I was there. I had a hard time delineating what was what. I hope the sight has not been explained away from the mystery that it once was.
Excellent comment.
I never got information about Hittite Naval power before. That's interesting. I guess they must have had ships for trade, patrolling, and war.
IIRC, the Hittites had some naval battles with other powers at the time. I think the engraving related to a naval battle over Cyprus was probably against the Egyptians. Although the Phoenician cities probably had some run-ins too. Especially since Egypt and Hatti vied for control over them.
Hittites didn’t have naval army. They used their Vassal’s (Lukka & Ugarit) naval army. Hittite & Alashiya (Cyprus) naval battle was world’s first recorded naval battle.
It's amazing to see how far you've come, David - sincerely an OG! 🫡
Thank you for spreading factual information about our history and combating the misinformation out there
Great Episode ! The stone work is incredible ! I can't wait for you to do this next one on Daron Kuru ! Hope I spelled that right .
Derinkuyu.
@@WorldofAntiquity ya, way off ! Thanks !
The content David Miano makes is top notch. How on earth does this video not have over a million views yet?? It's brilliant.
Is it, though..? I personally couldn’t stop cringing.
cheers always found the Hittites interesting
Am I crazy, or the lions gate in Hatusha resemble a lot the lions gate in Mycenae?
The hittites seemed awesome. Wish we had more from them.
Amazing!!! Thank you.
Love the postern! Hi Dr. David 😊 is the postern thingy done in other cultures too? First time i've heard of it (as far as i can remember 🤪)
Best channel!
26:35 Stone levitation is harder than it looks 😅
Great video!
The Hattian capital Hattusa was totally destroyed by the king of Kussara ,Anitta, and he put a curse upon the city and everyone who tried to rebuild it. That text is one of the earliest indo-european texts ever discovered.
Ironic that his relatives the Hittites later rebuild the city and made it their capital.Even during Hittite empire era the city was destroyed more than once by the Kaskans and other forces.
There is a gap between Anitta era and the beginning of the Hittite Empire.Was Labarna (the first Hittite king) related to him?
They really should do something to keep those stones from eroding away
love to see a post about mittani and their religion and oragins
Might the Hittites have chosen a corbelled vault over an arch at minute 32:00 to withstand earthquakes better, just as polygonal walls are said to do?
Possibly, but I am not aware of any arch that has been found in Hittite ruins.
Thanks 🙏 - Very interesting
I’m envious of your glasses, I recently saw an 1800’s pic of a guy wearing a pair like that. Did you order them?
Thrift store.
@@WorldofAntiquity nice find!
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES! Ancient Greece next, pretty please!
I love these Ed Helms history docs 🤪
Loved it.
I dont have a globe. I love maps though. I have an atlas. I have a coffee table book of maps but best of all are my UK ordnance survey maps. They are vital for the serious hiker. With a compass as well of course.
36:00 sounds like a challenge
Good stuff.
Thanks!
7:25 doesn't russia use the double-headed eagle? from whence did the hittites descend?
Russia came long after the Hittites.
And Byzantine Empire, and Seljuk Empire...
And the Romulans
@@PathsUnwritten lol that's IT!
Yeah, the Hittites were around before Russia was a thing.
27:42 damaged considerably? by what?
Vandalism, it would seem.
These are so good to me
i hope you brought that doggo home :D
The landscape looks like Montana at times
Gorgeous
If you want to know the Hittite language, you can go to the North Caucasus to the city of Maikop in the Republic of Circassia in the Russian Federation, they are the original peoples of the Hittites and even now they speak the ancient Hittite language, and you have to look at their culture in dress and dance, you will feel that you see this ancient civilization in front of you.
Great Hittite Empire’s sudden vanishing is still unknown. After collapse around 1200 bc Clicia and Carcemish region Hittite people remained. But Iron age Neo-Hittite states (Clicia and Carchemish region) inscriptions didn’t write anything about collapse of the empire. Also orthostads dont mention. After 50 or 100 years later (Around 1.100 bc) of the collapse of Hittites, Mainland (Central Anatolia) of the Hittite empire filled with Phrygians. Phrygians lived in small groups as village settlements for about 300 years. Phrygians turned in to a state nearly after 300 years of coming to Anatolia. They established the city Gordion around 9th century bc. It seems there is not much interaction happened between Hittites and Phrygians. This seems strange since culturally Hittites were dominating people. I am really curious what happened to the central Anatolian Hittite people and Hittite royal family between the period 1177bc-900bc. Remaining of Hittite people should have been took a important roles in Phrygian state. But it seems this was not happen. Great Hittite empire’s knowledge was not transferred to followings. It seems it was huge time waist to establish the knowledge again (300 years dark age).
One theory, or better, just hypothesis that I've heard of says that the Hattushans burnt their city to the ground themselves and moved all the way to Syria where they found the so-called neo-Hittite states. I don't know if there are any remains of such a big fire left.
Look up Newgrange I'm Ireland tomb
3:55 "a$$holes." Am I hearing thay right??
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I imagine that in a couple of thousand years someone will be talking about the ruins of the United States this way. Crumbling statues and worn away inscriptions. A lot of things along the coast will probably be lost. Monuments like Mt Rushmore will probably still exist. Unless a group like the Taliban gets there first. The Taliban blew up the Buddhas of Bamiyan.
Cheese is important for breakfast. It binds you up for the rest of the day so you don't have to go looking for a secluded tree for relief, or dare to test the old public toilets found in the ruins of some cuiltures.
Hittite those hitch-hiker thumbs 👍🏽
You're supposed to use your thumb? I used my middle finger. I was curious why people kept cursing me and speeding off 😂
@@SuperUAP ha ha 😂
Well, the thumb's an electronic sub-ether device, the roundabout's at Barnard's Star, six light-years away, but otherwise that's more or less it.@@SuperUAP
Hittites took over from the Hatti - even usurped their very name and incorporated the Hatti culture as their own - they were an Indo-European society and I think Hittite is the earliest known written Indo-European language.
I don't think they called themselves "Hittites". Their language (the "Hittite" as we named it) was referred to as "nishili" or something after the city of Nesha (Kanesh). But yes, in the cuneiform record they mostly wrote "The Land of Hatti" for the core of their empire. And Egyptians called them "Khet" or "Khat".
Now that i think of it, what was the name of Egypt in hieroglyphic? Was it "Khemet" or something like that? I cannot remember well anymore.
The name of Egypt meant "land of black soil" if I remember correctly it was something like "khemet". Interesting to investiagate how it got the Greco-Latin-English name of "Aegyptum/Egypt" and its present Arabic name of Misr and the Jews called it "Mizraim" which would be related to "Misr"@@SCUIRPB
@@kaloarepo288 Thnx :-)
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