PugJesus@lemmy.worldM to Illustrations of history@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoHattusa, capital of the Hittites, Turkiye, with reconstruction illustrationlemmy.worldimagemessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up1219arrow-down14cross-posted to: historyruins@lemmy.world
arrow-up1215arrow-down1imageHattusa, capital of the Hittites, Turkiye, with reconstruction illustrationlemmy.worldPugJesus@lemmy.worldM to Illustrations of history@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square14fedilinkcross-posted to: historyruins@lemmy.world
minus-squareUruanna@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·edit-22 months agoIt’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
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