The Largest Hittite Monument Ever Found | ATG Highlights 

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Real archeologists not bullshit like Joe Rogan... then they use BC / BCE... so, not so much difference. Just childish

@@Balthazare69 b-b-but... no Nephilim? No Anunaki or lost advanced technology? How will I achieve enlightenment before the endtimes if you guys hide all the super exciting secret history? 🤣

Yes. Some.

The Hittites had bronze.

Yes. Yazilikaya in its final form is dedicated to Tudhaliya IV, father of the last Hittite king.

Hieroglyphs are a type of script that others also used besides Egyptians. Each type of hieroglyphic writing is different, just as cuneiform script was not only used by Sumerians.

Luwian hieroglyphs

I know what hieroglyphs are . Glad for your mansplaination though.

Yes. Many don't understand that ancient "Greece" was a mix of cultures, gods, languages, foods, etc. The Levant, Persia, middle east, Anatolia, Minoan, Egypt, all contributed much of their own cultures.

@@papasitoman True, and all ancient religions were based on the idea of the 12 cycles of the moon and constellations, and of course of the sun.

​​@cattymajiv but 12 is 1/30 of a circle measured as having 360° by Babylonian mathematics. But why did they come up with that number? Is it because of the mathematics of space-time? Ive no idea. I need to go and make lunch. 😊

No such thing as indo-European... just the Aryans from West Asia who's 10000 years of civilization and identity which spread to northern Indian and Europe who have nothing to do with it's origin!! the Anglo saxx's during 1960s came up with the term indo European to try spreading their own narrative of Harry Potter history 😅

Issue with official story is , that it’s coming from obedient, system and hierarchy, that is only allowing , to repeat what is served from the top, once rebels get their ways , and get proven right, the system will start parroting rebels opinions . … history always repeat itself

If pioneering is copying what the guys he debunks have been doing for years without the speculation

They may well have been recognized ancestors, underscoring Tudhaliya IV's royal authority.

Though sculptured reliefs, these panels I suspect were adorned with colors when the site was still in use as a religious center. That would have highlighted them more, and made them stand out more vividly.

@@barrymoore4470 I tend to assume that for most ancient reliefs/statues. However I also remind myself that if something's been used for decades or centuries I think by then it may have fallen into disrepair fairly quickly if they didn't perform quality maintenance, which wouldn't be there without a wealthy benefactor interested in (or financially capable of) maintaining it. All to (cautiously) say that most works which eroded probably looked quite similar to how they look like now, for most of the time during which they've been used for - if their use greatly outlived their original patrons.

I am am so very angered by the fact that Graham Hancock and his kind are doing so much harm to the minds of the gullible people of all ages who fall for their lies!

I still don’t really understand the harm aspect of the Hancock hate …. How is he harming people ? Because he has questions or alternative theories….. most of what he says is just postulating a theory …. I’m not sure he has ever called himself an archeologist….. I agree with a lot of archeologists but in the end they are wildly speculating as well 95% of the time ….. so disagree for sure ..,, think it’s stupid for sure ….. but my man here is making a cottage industry of debunking Hancock and trying really , really hard to get on Rogan himself so your kidding yourself if you think he isn’t happy Graham exist ….. frankly I’m glad there are dreamers out there ….. none of you can demonstrably prove any of this so maybe lighten up and take it is as entertainment

@@jacobfinney5642 No, archeologists are not 'wildly speculating' 95% of the time. The fact that you believe that is the first casualty from following pseudo-archeologists like Hancock.

@@kelliepatrick519 is it ? I’ve asked where Graham says he’s an archeologist, said I agreed with a lot of archeologists…. Pointed out he is postulating …. And at the end of the day all of accepted archeological is predicated on the best possible educated GUESS based on the very limited , dogmatic facts that remain that provide the building blocks for accepted theory ….. this weird thing your doing where your generalizing what I’m saying is kinda my point I guess …. You took nothing I said into consideration and went straight into insults / grandstanding …. And still offered no evidence of harm which was the point to begin with …..

@@jacobfinney5642 lol, sorry, nice try. The 'dogmatic' is the giveaway. But I get it. You're 'just asking questions'. Encouraging people to 'do their own research'. And that we need to 'teach the controversy'.

Strange that Ishtar's sacred city, Lawazantiya, has never been found. It's where Ḫattušili III met Puduhepa while returning from Kadesh, but he was not yet Great King then.

I don't think she's his wife. Probably a friend or girlfriend. He's travelled with several very attractive women.

@@cattymajiv Ok...thanks for the correction..looked like they were holding hands when they entered the place ..anyways, they look great together 😂

Luwian hieroglyphs were used for temples and stone monuments

@@markdevries1535 Apart from those epigraphic contexts, I believe their other writing was all expressed in cuneiform.

@@barrymoore4470 Luwian hieroglyphs were also used on seals. There were also wooden tablets which they "drew" or "painted" on. Those might have used the hieroglyphs, or perhaps a shorthand version of it. None of them have survived. Not even one. Sadly, from the cuneiform documents, we know that the number of wooden tablets greatly exceeded the number of clay tablets.

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May such enlightened policies of preservation and conservation of heritage continue.

Most of the work has been done by the Germans for more than 100 years.

If only the leaders and many of the people in Turkey, Hungary, Serbia, Belarus, and especially Russia and Israel cared as much about living people! The genocide those countries conduct and support has to stop! FOREVER! Save the Palestinians! SLAVA UKRAINI ! ! !

Not until recently!

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Modern scholarship has, unfortunately, resulted in confusion about this. The Hittite capital city, Hattusa, was originally a Hattian city, "Hattus" or "Hatta". The Hittites called the language of the people there "hattili", which translates to "that of the city Hatti". In other words, what we today call "Hattic" is what the Hittites called "Hittite". As for their own language, the Hittites named it after the city Nesa (Kanesh), a city which they dominated and was very important in the preceding period because of its trade links with Assyria. So, to the Hittites, their own language was "Nesite". But, by the time scholars figured that out, they had already started calling the language of the Hittites "Hittite", and it stuck. In any event, after making Hattusa the capital of their kingdom, the Hittites called their kingdom "the Land of the City Hattusa". "Hatti" in the Akkadian language frequently used by the Hittites. So today we call the Hittite empire "Hatti".

There has been great historical research done on the Hittites. See, especially, Trevor Bryce.

@@gregorynixon2945 Wait, so we do know who those gods are and what they symbolize? Like, their whole pantheon?

It's recently (20 years or so) become very well-studied by scholars and much has been revealed. The shortest book to get summary insights is Trevor Bryce's *Warriors of Anatolia*. Recommended.

@@MetastaticMaladies I think Dr Milano exaggerates his point. Many depicted deities are unknown but the major 12 and more certainly are known. Yazilikaya (as it's called today) was vastly rebuilt after the religious reforms of Puduhepa, mother and chief advisor to Tudhaliya IV. The Hittites suffered runaway god inflation by incorporating every deity they encountered into their pantheon (the famous 1000 gods of the Hatti). Puduhepa declared she had a revelation and restricted the number of major deities to gods mainly drawn from the Hurrians (her ancestors). There is plenty of excellent research literature on this topic.

@@gregorynixon2945 Huh. I read that the full pantheon of gods and the intricacies of their religious practices aren’t fully understood. Like some myths and rituals are difficult to interpret, so while we have a decent idea, it’s still not fully known. And there is little known about the daily lives of ordinary people, there’s a lot of info about kings and the elite, but very little is known about the common people. I could go on about other things I’ve read but it’ll get too long. It seems there’s still a lot of mysteries surrounding the Hittites that we haven’t discovered, and while I appreciate you trying to educate me, I think your exaggerating just how much we know, I’ve read several books on Hittites, I can’t remember if they are all Trevor or not, but we don’t know everything about them, and that’s the point of my post. Things that have been lost to time we may never know, including people and culture, but I hope we learn everything.

Both. There are a whole bunch of gods (polytheism) carved at Yazilikaya, but they went by their Hurrian, rather than Anatolian, names. This is the syncretism between the Anatolian and Hurrian gods.

Sounds like BG3 music. This is clearly an ancient monument somewhere in Forgotten Realms.

Actually, the number of monuments increases after the collapse of the empire. "Wiped out" just means that the upper echelons responsible for running the empire died or in some other way lost control of the imperial bureaucracy. The peasant class still remained, as it always did, and still does today. The empire represented the upper echelons, and so the empire collapsed when the lost control of it. But after the fall of the empire, there were still Hittite vassal kings who were descendents of rulers of the Hittite empire. These kings immediately declared themselves to be kings by right of succession. These are the "Neo-Hittite" states. This is when we get a ton of monuments made, with the Neo-Hittite kings making monuments to themselves. But no single king could consolidate all of them, and they were eventually conquered individually by the Assyrians. The fate of the capitol isn't known. Oddly, by the time of the collapse of the empire, the capitol had already been largely abandoned. After the fall, or as part of it, it looks like the "barbarian" Kaska tribes who lived along the Black Sea coast, and had always been a problem for the Hittites, moved south into the old Hittite homeland and even beyond, before being defeated by the Assyrians.

@@Bramble451Wow! Okay... So what do the archeology people mean when they say such-n-so city "was never occupied again"? I've always assumed the peasants just keep farming, but ancient cities are harder for me to imagine. I've been to Ephesus, but I don't have any idea how they got jobs or got paid, or if such concepts have any meaning for the ways people lived back then... For example, if we assume the stone masons couldn't read or write, then they must have had a lot of supervision to get glyphs carved so neatly into a monument. And for that matter, if nobody is literate, who is influenced by these documentary monoliths? Given the realities of ancient bathroom habits, I can't even imagine how they stopped by the grocery store on the way home. Or the 1077bc equivalent...?

The Hittites had their own hieroglyphic script, written in the Luwian language, so we call them "Luwian hieroglyphs". They used them for monumental inscriptions and seals. Yazilikaya is Turkish, meaning "inscribed rock".

Gods having associated animals is widespread throughout Anatolia and the lands they influenced. Certain gods had animals that were traditionally associated with them, so there could very well be a connection. The image of a deity flanked by two animals is a very, very, very old tradition in Anatolia. On inscriptions, they are depicted as being on top of a single animal, but that's probably because they didn't know how to depict two animals side by side. In sculpture, the animals flank the deity and often serve as a throne.

It's a very exciting and interesting theory, although I don't know if it has found widespread acceptance.

the mitani spoke Hurrian which is unrelated to the Proto-Indo-European language family, However the Hatti a smaller kingdom that was absorbed by the Hittites and the actual culture that founded Hattuşa before being absorbed by the Hittite empire.

@@katmannsson The ruling elite of Mitanni display personal names and names of deities that suggest an Indo-European affiliation. But Hurrian itself, the language of the people over whom they ruled, was indeed non-Indo-European.

According to the Wikipedia page Indo-Aryan_superstrate_in_Mitanni, it mentions the treaty between the Hittites and Mitanni (between Suppiluliuma I and Shattiwaza, c. 1380 BC), the deities Mitra, Varuna, Indra, and Nasatya (Ashvins) are invoked. Source cited on Wikipedia: Fournet, Arnaud (2010). "About the Mitanni Aryan gods". Journal of Indo-European Studies. 38 (1-2): 26-40.

For most of them, yes.