The use of iron and steel is found among the Hittites and related peoples at the time of the eighteenth dynasty in Egypt, and iron was freely used by the later Assyrians. Brass was known in ...
The Hittite empire fell, and the Assyrian and Babylonian empires faltered. The Mycenaeans, Minoans and Canaanites disappeared from the record. Mainland Greece’s population halved and its palaces ...
The area is known to have been home throughout history to Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians, Hittites, Assyrians, Romans, Seljuks, and Ottomans, among others. The latest archeologic excavations in ...