AO 5:01, Jan/Feb 2002
Warriors of Hatti
The rise and fall of the Hittites, Turkeys splendid Bronze Age civilization
Just who were the Hittites?
When this question began to be asked a little more than a century ago, our only knowledge of the Hittites came from the Hebrew Bible.1 Abraham buys a burial plot for his wife Sarah from Ephron the Hittite (Genesis 23:320). King David falls in love with Bathsheba, the wife of Uriah the Hittite, as he watches her bathe (2 Samuel 11:227). Davids son Solomon chooses Hittite women to number among his wives (1 Kings 11:1).