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PugJesus@lemmy.worldM to Illustrations of history@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months ago

Hattusa, capital of the Hittites, Turkiye, with reconstruction illustration

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Hattusa, capital of the Hittites, Turkiye, with reconstruction illustration

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    Ariel photography in 1300bc? I’m here for it.

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      Didnt know mermaids could take such good pictures

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      I’m not saying it was the aliens but …

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        It was the titans… definitely the titans given this city layout.

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          Yeah, that’ll happen when you build a city like that.

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    Why did they build the wall along the side with the sheer cliff face I wonder

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      Got to have watchtowers for those pesky rock climbing mongolian assassins. A nice smooth brick surface slows them down and slips them a bit like heavy beatles clamoring up glass. /s

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        It’s a few hundred years later, after the Hittites have disappeared, but Assurnasirpal II claims to have scaled a mountain peak “like the point of an iron dagger” to slaughter everyone inside the fortress at the top. Twice.

        https://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=assurnasirpal_ii

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        Mongolians? In 1300BC? Wasn’t it 2,500 years later, in like, 1200AD when they came rolling thru?

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          Attilla the Hun was around 450 AD too. Not exactly Mongolian, but very similar in the sense of being nomadic horse archers from the steppe.

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            They might actually be related. The huns originated from east of the Volga river (so east of the Scythians) and recent research identified genetic links to ancient Mongols

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            Scythian maybe?

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    I thought it was a slice of pie.

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