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Hittites, Trojans, and the Late Bronze Age World: Interview with Professor Trevor Bryce
Tides of History
The Perishable Nature of the Past
archaeology tells us nothing, so we have to use our speculation. But that's one of the great tragedies of history and archaeology, is just the perishable nature of the past. We've got hundreds of place names in the hit i taxe, but no sights to attach them to. And we've got lots and lots of sights, logical sites fof the hittite world, but no text to tell us what they were called. Except we occasionally hit the jackpot though. In the last few decades, a number of major cities of the hitite homeland, are call region of hittie territory, have been found with texts. That is very much the exception
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