The Kingdom of the Hittites
- ISBN-10
- 019927908X
- ISBN-13
- 9780199279081
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 554
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Authors
- Trevor Bryce, Trevor Robert Bryce
Description
Translations from the original texts are a particular feature of the book. Thus on many issues the Hittites and their contemporaries are allowed to speak to the modern reader for themselves."--BOOK JACKET.
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