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The Dark Lords of Hattusha

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‘The Dark Lords of Hattusha’ recounts the history of the Hittite Empire, which lost 2500 years ago. The deciphering of their language enabled archaeologists to finally retrace this great lost civilization.

Although belonging to the Bronze Age, the Hittites were forerunners of the Iron Age, developing the manufacture of iron artifacts from as early as the 20th century BCE. Hittite weapons were made from bronze; iron was so rare and precious that it was employed only as prestige goods. The Hittites were also famous for their skill in building and using chariots. These chariots gave them a military superiority as illustrated on a plate from Carchemish.

The Hittites were an ancient Indo-European people, speaking a language of the Anatolian branch of the Indo-European language family. They were part of a larger movement of Indo-Europeans in the 30th century BCE and established a kingdom centered at Hattusha on the Central Anatolian plateau ca. the 18th century BCE. The Hittites used cuneiform letters. Archaeological expeditions have discovered entire sets of royal archives in cuneiform tablets, written either in Akkadian, the diplomatic language of the time, or in the various dialects of the Hittite confederation.

This film thus takes the viewers back in time and opens the history of this once great empire.

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  1. Alan Horton says:

    The Basilica was not built on a “Mithraeum.” Before it was built, the block it sits on didn’t even exist, there was a street called the Via Cornelia running through the middle of what is now the nave of the church. On one side of the Via Cornelia was the Circus of Nero, and on the other side, there was a graveyard. I connect the Vedas with Hinduism because the Vedas are the central text of Hinduism. It’s like saying “you connect the Koran with Islam.”

  2. plcolsson says:

    So… Are the Hettites the “forefathers” of the modern-day europeans?

  3. Peter Lapso says:

    The early phase of the Vedic tradition in India is dated between 10,000 – 7,000 BCE. The Vedas are not puerile babblings of rustic troubadours, but sedate out-pourings of exceptional minds in quest of God. Early Rig Vedic hymns were composed between 6,000-1500 BCE. Like indestructible gems they have come down during many thousands of years in spotless perfection. Even Askenazi Israelites are geneticaly aryans who spoke Akkadian. Politics, fifgts for power,conspiracies

  4. Peter Lapso says:

    Enthusing over the “huge great stones and fantastic, highly refined art” at Göbekli Tepe, Hodder—who has spent decades on rival Neolithic sites—says: “Many people think that it changes everything…It overturns the whole apple cart. All our theories were wrong.”The same we can say about Aryan invasion theory which was created by Brits but was wrong. UR right as U look @ Rome. The same apply to Greece. Even Aesop copied his fables from Vedas. Not to talk about philosophy,math, gods

  5. Peter Lapso says:

    Basilica is built on Mithraneum which was underground. You simply connect Vedas with Hinduism. I talk about doctrines which looks universal. I absolutelly disagree with Ur explanation sun-moon worship. I count diferences as politics,intrigues,conspiracies.I try look @ history in somethin what I understand. How was christianity created and English/Italian/French/Spanish. Rulin caste always try to be diferent.Language,religion etc. Hittite as example. Rulling class spoke Akkadian writen in cuneifo

  6. yerk3 says:

    Are grave altars even compatible with Hinduism or Zoroastrianism? From what I’ve seen, Hindus cremate their dead and sprinkle the ashes in the Ganges. Zoroastrians cremate their dead now, but used to leave them above ground on mountaintops to be de-fleshed by the elements. I’ve researched Zoroastrianism, dead bodies are spiritually unclean, burial profanes the ground and cremation profanes the air.

  7. yerk3 says:

    So now you admit that St. Peter’s basilica was not built on a “Vedic temple” but on a cemetery, which it was, but now you’re insisting that because that cemetery had grave altars of a goddess-based religion, it must be “Vedic.” Not all goddess-based religions are “Vedic.”

  8. yerk3 says:

    Any mention of human events 50,000 years ago in the Vedas can be attributed to mythology, homo sapiens sapiens wasn’t even prevalent, much less literate, during that time period! Your theory of a not only globe-spanning but pre-human Vedic civilization is based on nothing but your own desire to believe.

  9. yerk3 says:

    The official religion in Rome was the Greek pantheon. Mithraeism was adopted as a cult religion by the centurions, who had encountered it in Parthia, it was not an indigenous Roman religion. The Romans were syncretists, experts at adapting anything they found that worked. They copied any technology from surrounding cultures that was found to work (ex. Carthaginian ships, Greek columns, Hunnic bows) and likewise worshiped any foreign god who promised results.

  10. yerk3 says:

    In all of these cases the much more plausible explanation is that people who depended on agriculture worshiped the sun, because the sun made the crops grow and ensured a bountiful harvest. Pyramids are not specific to any one culture either. All it entails is building a course of stones, then building a smaller course of stones on top of this. This is more of a testament to human ingenuity than some far-fetched theory of globe-spanning “Vedic” super-civilizations.

  11. Alan Horton says:

    Are grave altars even compatible with Hinduism or Zoroastrianism? From what I’ve seen, Hindus cremate their dead and sprinkle the ashes in the Ganges. Zoroastrians cremate their dead now, but used to leave them above ground on mountaintops to be de-fleshed by the elements. I’ve researched Zoroastrianism, dead bodies are spiritually unclean, burial profanes the ground and cremation profanes the air.

  12. Alan Horton says:

    So now you admit that St. Peter’s basilica was not built on a “Vedic temple” but on a cemetery, which it was, but now you’re insisting that because that cemetery had grave altars of a goddess-based religion, it must be “Vedic.” Not all goddess-based religions are “Vedic.”

  13. Alan Horton says:

    Any mention of human events 50,000 years ago in the Vedas can be attributed to mythology, homo sapiens sapiens wasn’t even prevalent, much less literate, during that time period! Your theory of a not only globe-spanning but pre-human Vedic civilization is based on nothing but your own desire to believe.

  14. Alan Horton says:

    The official religion in Rome was the Greek pantheon. Mithraeism was adopted as a cult religion by the centurions, who had encountered it in Parthia, it was not an indigenous Roman religion. The Romans were syncretists, experts at adapting anything they found that worked. They copied any technology from surrounding cultures that was found to work (ex. Carthaginian ships, Greek columns, Hunnic bows) and likewise worshiped any foreign god who promised results.

  15. Alan Horton says:

    In all of these cases the much more plausible explanation is that people who depended on agriculture worshiped the sun, because the sun made the crops grow and ensured a bountiful harvest. Pyramids are not specific to any one culture either. All it entails is building a course of stones, then building a smaller course of stones on top of this. This is more of a testament to human ingenuity than some far-fetched theory of globe-spanning “Vedic” super-civilizations.

  16. Peter Lapso says:

    You must start with Tobe disaster theory- Caucasus, Ice Age- pole shifting. Vedic symbols: swastika-sun cross-wheel of Mithra, obelisk-sun ray, pyramid-third eye, labyrinth. Labyrinth is on petroglyph arround globe. Oldest date on bone found in Siberia 5000bc. Pyramids all over world. Obelisk- totem. Sintashta Culture, in which Arkaim is a part,All the features of the Syro-Anatolian cultures have parallels with the archaeological cultures of this region.burial rituals in texts of Rig Veda

  17. Peter Lapso says:

    Religion is characterized by doctrines not fairy tales. Dying god,trinity,resurection,virgin. Oficial religion in Rome in times of Jesus was vedic god Mithra. During 16 century work on basilica they found cemetery and altars of supreme mother godess.They destroyed ‘em. American indians are majority haplogroup R, Great Lakes r1a. In distant past there was one teaching:Vedas. Vedas mention star constelation 12 800 years ago, also times as Punjab was lake 50 000 years ago.

  18. yerk3 says:

    So because the hill is named Tara, it has a connection to a goddess from a religion thousands of miles away? How do you explain swastikas in the Americas? Are the American Indians “Aryan” too?

  19. Alan Horton says:

    So because the hill is named Tara, it has a connection to a goddess from a religion thousands of miles away? How do you explain swastikas in the Americas? Are the American Indians “Aryan” too?

  20. brwnbayouchik says:

    Ok…so b/c the hitties were supposedly from somewhere in Europe..they are soooo great. More brainwashing, huh? I don’t believe a word of it. If they were in Turkey, they were from that region. They “knew their city was finished”…that’s ridiculous! No one builds a city that grand and just decides one day to pack all of their valuables and leave, oh yeah…setting the city on fire on the way out. I will never trust an old british guy’s pov..they are such full of hooey. My God!!! Try again.

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