The Battle of Qadesh (Kadesh) immortalized the embellished feats of Ramesses II (i.e. Ramesses the Great), the 19th Dynasty Pharaoh of the New Kingdom of Egypt ca. 1279 - 1213 BCE.
During the Bronze Age the Hittites built a mighty empire that ruled Anatolia, when their kings conquered and formed alliances to secure tin trade routes.
A farmer in Turkey found a rare 3,300-year-old Hittite bracelet on his land, which is shedding new light on Hittite jewelry and religion in the Late Bronze Age.
assertions are what made jerusalem what it is. for centuries, people who lived in and around jerusalem accepted that as a truth. so when we re reading the biblical stories, yes, we are reading the history of jerusalem. and the story of the holy city begins around 1,000 b.c. in the land of canaan. in 1,000 b.c., the major kingdoms were the egyptian kingdom to the south and the hittites to the north. this land of canaan in between, that was just a battlefield that the big boys came to duke it out on. canaan is the land that the israelites believe that god gave to them as the land that they were to inherit. the problem is, is that there were already people in canaan, the canaanites. according to the bible, god commands the israelites to kill