{"product_id":"archibald-henry-sayce-the-hittites-the-story-of-a-forgotten-empire-paperback","title":"Archibald Henry Sayce - The Hittites: The Story of a Forgotten Empire - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eArchibald Henry Sayce\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArchibald Henry Sayce was born in Shirehampton, Bristol, to a family of Shropshire descent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSayce was a fragile child who suffered from tuberculosis. Although this meant he started his education late he soon caught up, aided by a private tutor. By age ten he was reading Homer in the original Greek.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe attended The Queen's College, Oxford, and became a fellow in 1869.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1874 Sayce published a long paper, 'The Astronomy and Astrology of the Babylonians'. It was one of the first publications to recognise and translate astronomical cuneiform texts. By 1876, he had deciphered one of the hieroglyphics inscribed on stones at Hamath in Syria, by deducing that the profile of a man stood for \"I\". By his very methodical methods and work he was able in 1882, in a lecture to the Society of Biblical Archaeology in London, to state that the Hittites, far from being a small Canaanite tribe who dealt with the kings of the northern Kingdom of Israel, were the people of a \"lost Hittite empire.\" He and William Wright identified the ruins at Boghazkoy with Hattusa, the capital of a Hittite Empire that stretched from the Aegean Sea to the banks of the Euphrates, centuries before the age of the Old Testament patriarchs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was a major advance in our understanding of this period of antiquity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 60\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.12 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 24, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51797441970464,"sku":"9781787801813","price":13.82,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/bb2ff4429045ed3a674025bd4788aee8.webp?v=1780781615","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/archibald-henry-sayce-the-hittites-the-story-of-a-forgotten-empire-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}