This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ...The brachycephals constituted a foreign element of unknown origin. CHAPTER VIII. SYRIA AND ASIA MINOR. The Hitlites--The Armenoids of Lycia--Cyprus--The Phoenicians. The Hittites.--We have no reason to suppose that the movement of emigration in the east of Africa stopped at the Nile valley; we may suppose that it ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ...The brachycephals constituted a foreign element of unknown origin. CHAPTER VIII. SYRIA AND ASIA MINOR. The Hitlites--The Armenoids of Lycia--Cyprus--The Phoenicians. The Hittites.--We have no reason to suppose that the movement of emigration in the east of Africa stopped at the Nile valley; we may suppose that it extended towards the east of Egypt, into Syria and the regions around Syria, and thence into Asia Minor. It is possible that in Syria this immigration encountered the primitive inhabitants, or a population coming from northern Arabia, and mingled with them or subjugated them. After the celebrated Oriental discoveries in the Mesopotamian Valley, and the elucidation of the Egyptian monuments, came the discovery in Asia Minor and Syria of other monuments and of inscriptions in unknown and indecipherable hieroglyphics. They showed that a powerful and energetic nation at a very remote period appeared as it were between the two oldest empires of the world in the character of a terrible enemy. This powerful nation was that of the Kheti, Khatti, or Hittites--the name was variously pronounced by different peoples--and their racial components were of older date than the Phoenician dominion in Syria and the Hellenisation of Asia Minor. They constituted a pre-Phoenician and preHellcnic power in the Eastern Mediterranean. To explain the enigmas presented by the Hittites studies of all kinds are not lacking. English, German, and American scholars have devoted their most serious attention to the matter, and among Italians Father Cesare De Cara has written two very interesting works, noteworthy for the erudition and logical reasoning employed in establishing the facts and drawing conclusions from them.1 It is agreed that the language of the Hittites was not Semiti...
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