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Hittites, Trojans, and the Late Bronze Age World: Interview with Professor Trevor Bryce
Tides of History
Is It a Bubonic Plague?
There was a great plague which, several hundred s before the fall of the hitalite empire, decimated its population. And people have speculated on what this wasd i think it's quite possibly an outbreak of bubonic plague. The reason that in the end of the empire, the hittites packed up and left was that they were leaving a city which was being devastated by plague. So where did they go? This was just my guess, but we know that there was an important city called hoon sa tahuntasha near the southern coast of turkey. We don't know where tatasha is, except roughly where it is. It very likely lies underneath the remains of
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