HITTITES

The origin of the race is that incertain; described as living at Hebron; aentioned among the founders of Jerusa2m; spoken of as a northern people, and 1904), Concord, s also inhabiting the s. They probably He ame from Cappadocia and poured into ating alestine, where to a large extent they practised st their racial individuality by ‘iterinto larriage with Semitic people and by with dopting the Babylonian religion and Between ustoms. ‘They are frequently referred 9in O.T., and their relations with the man lebrews were friendly. The Egyptian solicitor. of 35 rm inscriptions of Van in Armenia He ave yielded much information; excavatives ons at several centres in Asia Minor, during 16 Tell-el-Amarna letters, and the arin hives of the Hatti kings have also retaining roved invaluable aids to the study of his 16 race. number