Hittite Fortifications C.1650-700 BC

by Konstantin Nossov

In the second half of the third millennium BC the Indo-European tribe known as the Hittites migrated and settled in Central Anatolia, at that time a land of small city-states whose rulers lived in fortresses. These fortifications enabled the Hittites to transform themselves into a Bronze Age super-power defeating the Egyptians at Kadesh in c.1274 BC. Konstantin Nossov examines the fortifications constructed by the Hittites in their efforts to sustain...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1846032075
• ISBN13: 9781846032073
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Osprey Publishing (UK)
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 7.3" x 9.8"