Full name: The Secret of the Hittites: The Discovery of an Ancient Empire

Author: C. W. Ceram Year: 1955 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781842122952 1842122959

The author of the acclaimed Gods, Graves, and Scholars tells the dramatic tale of the Hittites, an Indo-European people who became a dominant power in the Middle East. Their struggle in Egypt with Ramses II for control of Syria led to one of the greatest battles of the ancient world. The fall of the Hittite empire was sudden, and historical records were scarce--until the discovery of cuneiform tablets yielded a rich store of information on which this work is based. "...a saga richly charged with dramatic twists and with enthralling accounts of scholarly detective work."--The Atlantic. Similar books: The Hittites by O. R. Gurney The Kingdom of the Hittites by Trevor Bryce 1177 B.C. by Eric H. Cline Britain BC by Francis Pryor In Search of the Trojan War by Michael Wood The Babylonians by Gwendolyn Leick The Mycenaean World by John Chadwick Underworld by Graham Hancock America B.C. by Barry Fell Dead Wake by Erik Larson Life and Society in the Hittite World by Trevor Bryce One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson The Persians by J. M. Cook Six Frigates by Ian W. Toll 102 Minutes by Jim Dwyer The History of Jihad by Robert Spencer Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink The Oregon Trail by Rinker Buck The History of Surfing by Matt Warshaw Washington's Immortals by Patrick K. O'Donnell