Welcome to the History of the World Podcast. My name is Chris Hasler.

And you're listening to volume 2, The Ancient World. This is episode The Late

A Ancient World This is episode six,

The Late Bronze Age Collapse. Oh, Shul Texier was born in 1802 in the French city of Versailles, which is in the modern Evelyn Department of France.

Texier trained as an architect but was very interested in archaeology and as such he was given the opportunity to go on an exploratory mission to

Anatolia in 1833. The following year he would stumble across a site of extreme

significance to ancient history. The site was near the village called

Boisqu, which is in the modern Turkish

district of Boyce Cali and it was the ancient Hittite capital of Hatusha.

The subsequent excavations at Hatusha not only revealed clues about the culture of the

region at the time, but also clues about the the was burned down and that the city was abandoned, destroyed and that was in around 1180

B.C. E. So who was responsible for the destruction of Hattusia, which coincides with the end of the

kingdom of our stars from the last podcast, The Hittites.

The Hittites.

Let's look for more clues among the ruins of Hatusha. The German archaeologist Jurgensia has published works

about Hatusha and it suggests that Hattusia was abandoned before it was destroyed.

So this suggests that the last king of the Hittites, Sir Pilluli Uma II would have known what was coming and arranged for

the Hittite capital to have been evacuated with anything of value.

Who would have chased the Hittites out of Hattusia?

Whoever they were, they did a good job, as this was the last we hear of the Hittites in history. The Hittite disappearance is simply amazing, considering their dominance of Anatolia for 500 years or more

and also the fact that it has been a mighty empire under the leadership of the

successful Warrior King Sir Piliu. Empire under the leadership of the successful warrior king

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