Hittites, Trojans, and the Late Bronze Age World: Interview with Professor Trevor Bryce
Tides of History
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The End of the World, Yes?
There is no reason why the geography of power within within an empire or kingdom has to remain the same over time. We love a story that ends with a conflagration, and at the end of an empire and the end of its capital city. I remember my producer in the hitite capital wanted to have, he had a big model of the city, and he wanted it destroyed by all going up in flames. He was told by the director that that was not historically accurate. So it ends with a whimper ofa bat. That's a i feel like that in itself is much more historically accurate. But things never really end. They just kind of turn into the next thinging
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