@PugJesusM to Illustrations of historyEnglish • 2 days agoHattusa, capital of the Hittites, Turkiye, with reconstruction illustrationimagemessage-square14arrow-up1211arrow-down14cross-posted to: historyruins
arrow-up1207arrow-down1imageHattusa, capital of the Hittites, Turkiye, with reconstruction illustration@PugJesusM to Illustrations of historyEnglish • 2 days agomessage-square14cross-posted to: historyruins
minus-square@UruannalinkEnglish8•edit-21 day 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