The SECRET Of The HITTITES: The Discovery of an Ancient Civilization. Translated from the German by Richard and Clara Winston.
CERAM, C.W.
Published by Knopf, 1956
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Title: The SECRET Of The HITTITES: The Discovery of...
Publisher: Knopf
Publication Date: 1956
Binding: hardcover
Condition: Good
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The SECRET Of The HITTITES: The Discovery of an Ancient Civilization. Translated from the German by Richard and Clara Winston.
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Alfred A. Knopf, 1956
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The Secret of the Hittites: The Discovery of an Ancient Civilization. Translated from the German by Richard and Clara Winston
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Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1956
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Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American Edition (stated). First American Edition stated, First printing. Hard cover 8vo in red cloth w/silver dec and gold spine titles, yellow topstain. Fine and unmarked book in Very Good unclipped DJ w/light edgewear, taped on inside, scuffed rear panel. 281pp + Index [x]. Book. Seller Inventory # 041710
The SECRET Of The HITTITES: The Discovery of an Ancient Civilization. Translated from the German by Richard and Clara Winston.
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Alfred A. Knopf
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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # GB000NSNBLOI5N01
The SECRET Of The HITTITES: The Discovery of an Ancient Civilization. Translated from the German by Richard and Clara Winston.
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Knopf, 1956
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hardcover. Condition: Good. No dust jacket. Book has green covers with gold title on shrine. Previous owner's name on corner of front end paper. Book shows common (average) signs of wear and use. Binding is still tight. Covers are intact but may be repaired. We have 75,000 books to choose from -- Ship within 24 hours -- Satisfaction Guaranteed! Seller Inventory # mon0000935212
The Secret Of The Hittites: The Discovery of an Ancient Civilization. Translated from the German by Richard and Clara Winston.
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Knopf, 1956
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Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. [Hittitology] Hardcover and dust jacket. Tears to jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Owner's name on front end page, else unmarked. The Hittites occupied the ancient region of Anatolia (also known as Asia Minor, modern-day Turkey) prior to 1700 BCE, developed a culture apparently from the indigenous Hatti (and possibly the Hurrian) people, and expanded their territories into an empire which rivaled, and threatened, the established nation of Egypt. They are repeatedly mentioned throughout the Hebrew Tanakh (also known as the Christian Old Testament) as the adversaries of the Israelites and their god. Seller Inventory # 2412270002
THE SECRET OF THE HITTITES: The Discovery Of An Ancient Civilization. Translated From The German By Richard And Clara Winston
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Seller: Chris Fessler, Bookseller, Howell, MI, U.S.A.
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red & silver gilt illustrated full cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. near fine cond. binding square & tight. front cover has couple of tiny scratches. edges clean. contents free of markings. price clipped dustwrapper in vg cond. spine faded, chipped at bottom, 1cm piece missing at top, rubbed along the flap edges, minor creasing & wrinkling. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first american edition so stated. first printing (nap). deckled foredge. xxi+281+xp. 48 glossy b&w plates. approximately 75 drawings. chronological table. bibliography. index. ancient history. archaeology. middle east history. art history. ~ The Secret of the Hittites is a continuation of the panorama of the most ancient world presented in Gods, Graves, and Scholars. Since Mr. Ceram wrote that famous book, a new, thrilling, romantic, and highly significant discovery has been made. The darkest archreological riddle of the Orient has been virtually solved~and this with dramatic suddenness in the past few years. Although some mysterious ruins in central Turkey had been noticed in 1839, no one for a long time ascribed them to the Hittites ~a people given just seven lines in the Bible and dismissed as a minor Syrian tribe. Only in 1880 did a hero of archaeology advance the reckless theory that there once had been a mighty Hittite Empire stretching from the Black Sea to Damascus. Only around 1910 did we gain our first faint knowledge of its history. Only since 1946 has there been hope of reading the fabulous Hittite hieroglyphic inscriptions. And only in the last few years has anyone done so. Now, twenty centuries after Christ, we know that twenty centuries before Christ the lndo~European Hittites descended into Asia Minor. Now we can set a third great empire beside the Babylon of Hammurabi and the Egypt of Tutankhamen. Now we can read the first fragments of a great unknown literature, of which Mr. Ceram presents stirring excerpts. Now we know the truth about Kadesh, one of the few battles that really shaped world history. Now we know the true story of the first great political treaty in the history of mankind, between the Hittites and Egypt. But, even more important than any of these glamorous details, we can now crosscheck and synchronize the histories of Babylon and Egypt, and greatly enlarge our knowledge of the entire ancient world. Archaeology once more is achieving new and exciting vistas of man's most distant past, and of the uttermost origins of our civilization. The Secret of the Hittites is not only a scientific thriller covering more than a hundred years of detective work, but also a firsthand report of its climactic achievements, a report that has never before been published except in scientific journals, and that is here presented with all the color and readability for which the author is known. Seller Inventory # 7062203