New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 13, 1930, Page 13

Hidden ey tothe -ittites ound Atter 3.60 How the Archacologists Learned at Last of the f.!! Thwarted Romance §= of a Mighty Pharaoh. : : Bl v i SR ol and the Lovely gt El EL T} (G B . e Carved on the Side of *4 Mountain. This Picture Shows That Such N\ = S N N\ Work Is Not a Twentieth Century Chattusil ' attusil. LONG buried record of romance A and royal intrigue, of laws and wars, of jealousy and greed, of learning and brilliant achievement—a picture of the human soul of a great nation—has been unfolded hefore the eye of twentieth-century man. Just as the language of the Igyp- : Z t v tians, the understanding of which hal h - ; 1) e / W long been relegated to antiquity, was “ . 3 4 3 R ;4 SILLE RoR deciphered when the soldiers of Napo- b 5 . . ’ i leon unearthed the famed Rosetta x R : ; ; i c o aouney Stone, now the tongue of the Hittites, | X 7 2 / . 3 , e con for nearly forty centuries a conundrum / > ) without a solution, has been revived, A tablet, lettered both in the Hittite The Floor Plan of the Magnificent Royal Palace and Assyrian charactrs, was ‘found Which Housed Hittite Kings in the City buried in the ruins of a foreign city, and scholars were quick to discover the key to the Hittite tongue. And in an incredibly short time, in formation sufficient to fill additional tho ds pages of history compiled. Now, by combining the old knowledge with new, we are able to more than a piecemeal patchwork of ancient his- tory; knowledge of the Hittites makes the pattern pretty nearly complete. In the Bible the Hittite mentioned as o of the seven nations of the Promised Land who are to be driven out before the Israelites, and the Prophct Ezekiel states: faflf:?fa;\‘d”-(';]“};m‘:;;r\:‘:i ) i e R i : o T o lande ol Xearst Azos it Waa: Round! Neantx a Hittite”—when speaking NELNE W 4 1 1 ;. A Door of the Maznificent Palace at Carchemish. of Jerusalem, thus con- : ' necting the origin of the 4 : ¢ i o chief nt i i t y h Ram % I'hese Two Curious Hebrews themsclves with : Hittit t i this remarkable and puz- zling people. Practically nothing was . y ; Cniabout them: nntil P # e o ancie v E 7 v J Ruins and Now in the vations began in 1907 2/ ; . oin i B s : r : efendir cir 5, Government Muscum in some of their great cities ks : . - in Asia Minor; and even then, though great palaces and temples were laid bare, and many inscriptions were brought to light, nothing was understood because the mass of Hittite wr could not be read. So it remained until recently, when many tablets were found written not only i //,Wm,w o % 4 pmmm, I e LA IO I A A R AR IR A IR RIS 7 R AR L 4 RN 1 BB e s I % = Ihis Strange ligure ot a Deity, Guarded by Stone Lions and an Fagle-Headed Attendant, Served to Inspire Awe in Hittite v | , i e s, e Vigures Are Those of Hittite Deities. Taken From Ancient in Vienna. lomnia e affixing to 1 h TSI S AN AR IV LRI e L Completely Uneovered Now, the Gateway o the Roval Palace at Sukje-Guee Stands Oiit a2 One of the Great Achieve- : ! . T ments of Antiquity. The Top of the R vhich ha n : e Gateway Is Missinz. but the Walls : £ : : g that their powe Tozether With Magnificent rigina a ey acquired nd by < of Sphinxes and Lions g § i 3 § N N N i ; N : i { { N N ! dhemsriin Z and t their shrev and kee Z 7 /wm« rmmnz, " sy e ¥ {fow of an widow, o Outwardly, This Stone Smacks Little of Romance—Yet It Contai on Its Face the Whole Story of the Heart-1hrobs of Rameses the Second of Egypt for the Daughter of King Chattusil of the Hittites. The In ons Are in Hittite Script. and the Tale Has Just Been Deciphered the Hittite character, but also i Assyrian cuneiform, which schold read and translate with ease. And in this way the key was offered to the Hittite language itself. Once the seriptions were read the story of Hittites became an open book It is now plain that the Hittites were in Asia Minor forty centures the time of Abraham, for only time afterward s history is reckoned, they were strong enough to capture Babylon itself, the greatest city in pire. nor ¢ Lhis Weird Stone Statne, Uncovered Recently, Typifies an Larly Period Asla il LTR0RD SO NIl ; Yo e of Hittite Culture, Archacologists Sav. proved by the records just read w t ) mention a King hil as the con- obably for the work Newspaper Feature service, 1330 I " L % MBI I N A somstied M , iy / " % Py < 4 / 4 ’ ey ¢ % d T i i 4 4 e, 14 P W e b ' %% % Y y 17 'y 7 iy o o & & O —————— I oA NI . e A A o L A L G N 1 L N 1A AT o ————— v ' |