Narrow Pass, Black Mountain The Discovery of the Hittite Empire

Ceram, C.W.

Verlag: Victor Gollancz & Sidgwick and Jackson, London,, 1956

Beschreibung

First UK edition: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine-titling and upper board decoration; 284pp., many monochrome maps and illustrations and 48pp. of monochrome plates. offset to endpapers; some spotting to the text block edges; previous retailer's bookplate on front pastedown. Illustrated dustwrapper with spotting, some marks and tiny chips from spine panel extremities; scuffing and price clipped. Otherwise very good and protected in archival film with white paper backing. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. Before the year 1906, the Hittites were considered to be a mythical people, known only from their sparse references in the Bible. However, since 1834, reports of an unknown race, remnants left in an undecipherable script on remote carvings and edifices around the Mediterranean, slowly came together to reveal the existence of this hidden civilisation. The author of this work takes us through the detective story that was the unearthing of the Hittites, their defeat of Rameses at Qadesh, and their treaty with the Egyptian king that determined the political landscape of Asia Minor for the successive seven centuries. Nowadays the fact of the Hittite Kingdom is a given; this book allows us to travel back to a time when that knowledge was questionable, and to see how the truth emerged. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 74413

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Narrow Pass, Black Mountain The Discovery of...

Verlag: Victor Gollancz & Sidgwick and Jackson, London,

Erscheinungsdatum: 1956