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J. David Hawkins

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ecent discoveries of texts, monuments, and smaller artifacts have begun to fill in our knowledge of the collapse of the Hittite Empire in central Anatolia around 1200 B.C.E. and the rise of the smaller “Neo-Hittite” successor states that developed in the centuries that followed. Here, I will review what we currently know about the demise of the Hittite Empire and transition to the Iron Age, and then examine recent epigraphic discoveries from this “Dark Age” and their historical implications for this formative period.

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