8. Hittites, Canaanites, Phoenicians, Assyrians

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Hittites

1400 - 1200 B. C.

The gate to Hattusa, capital city of the Hittites in central Anatolia

Hittites - Indo-Europeans from the north, settled in Anatolia; first to develop iron, speakers of the oldest Indo-European language

Hittites

Lecture (# 7) by Ethan Spanier from a History 180 course at Whitman College, Spring 2011

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PivX8RTZq7Q Removed from You Tube

Tracking the Frontiers of the Hittite Empire

Lecture by Ann Gunter (2010)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxBMpMR4pqs&feature=related

The Dark Lords of Hattusha

Episode # 3 from the documentary series Lost Cities of the Ancients

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cVfIJikiMI

The Hittite Kingdom

Lost Superpower of the Bible

Episode about the Hittites of Hattusha from the documentary series Lost Worlds (44 min.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z9BPAYUnb8 Removed from You Tube

Excerpt:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0PoG4xoLb8

The Hittites and the Era of the Israelite Judges

Excerpt of a lecture on the Bible by Bruce Gore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfDyto6Jjio

The Hittites

A Civilization that Changed the World

2003 documentary narrated by Jeremy Irons (3:04:12)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDrmsEueb-Q

Empire of the Hittites

Episode # 5 of six of the 1985 BBC documentary series In Search of the Trojan War with Michael Wood (59:54)

(See also the Persia and Greece page)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyKIlRqRb58

Tablet with Hittite text in cuneiform script

The Luwians

A Lost Civilization Comes Back to Life

Lecture by Eberhard Zangger in Klosters, Switzerland on 18 January 2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DNyA90f_aw

Luwian Hieroglyphics

Lecture by Petra Goedegebuure at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago on 3 February 2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOd_hodh7Mc

Secret Pagan Underworld

Episode from the documentary series Cities of the Underworld (2007)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmTg2_ZCW9s

Battle of Kadesh

Episode from the documentary series Decisive Battles

In 1272 BC the Hittites and Egyptians fought a battle to a draw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8f1FUwTv8Q

Ramses - Raging Chariots

Episode 7, about the Battle of Kadesh, of Season 1 of the documentary series Battles BC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKUfw8uEmr8

New Discoveries in Ancient Turkey

Lecture by Brian Rose

Penn Museum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF8vjpc1oQk

A Tour of Central Turkey

- Ankara, Konya, Cappadocia

Lecture by John R. Hale

From The Great Courses

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dReyRDezmmw

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The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars as seen by Hittites and Luwians

Eberhard Zanger and Rita Gautschy

Zurich

14 March 2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4-2MMBn_is

The Hittites

Discussion on the weekly BBC radio programme In Our Time hosted by Melvyn Bragg with guests Claudia Glatz, Ilgi Gercek and Christoph Bachhuber

23 December 2021

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0012q5n

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Phoenicians

Phoenician (from Poeni, meaning the colour red or purple) is an Archaic Greek name or term given to sea merchants who inhabited

the Semitic Canaanite coastal cities of the Levant such as Sidon, Biblos and Tyre.

Phoenicians generally considered themselves Canaanite.

Phoenician ship (replica)

Phoenician colonies and trade routes ca. 700 B. C.

Phoenicians sailed around the African continent (around the Cape of Good Hope)

Phoenician colonies and sea voyages

Phoenicians and Genetics

Spencer Wells (2008)

"Genetically . . . the Canaanites, Phoenicians and Lebanese are the same people."

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4V_tskDXAk&feature=related

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZjF5IfuML0

Lebanese geneticists trace link to Phoenicians

Al Jazeera, Nov 22, 2008

"Only 27% of Lebanese carry the Phoenician gene."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvlIrWk9utI

Tracing a Lost Civilization - Phoenician & Lebanese DNA

CNN - Inside the Middle East

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP7TcPj7UAE

The Quest for the Phoenicians

2004 National Geographic documentary (52 min.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBObLQZdeq8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVwsZnH9y9k

Sailing with the Phoenicians

Episode from the documentary series Secrets of Archeology (2003)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YctseaBS-wE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gsh3qMWmOTw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j32yCYm6DFc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es7GejIyv64

The Phoenicians

Discussion on the weekly Thursday BBC radio programme In Our Time hosted by Melvyn Bragg

With guests Mark Woolmer, Josephine Quinn and Cyprian Broodbank

6 February 2014

BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03szw8l

You Tube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHx17BKaJbE

22-letter Phoenician alphabet

How the Phoenicians started the Alphabet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcK-VFFKbCA

Egyptian hieroglyphs, Phoenician, Greek and Latin alphabets

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Assyria

Mesopotamia: Babylonia and Assyria

Assyria and the Bible

Lectures from a bible study course by Bruce Gore

Uploaded in 2015

11. The Assyrian Empire and the Israelite Monarchy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7rSCsDBPZU

12. The Assyrian Empire and Jonah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FZECx74Dmg

13. The Assyrian Empire, Isiah and King Ahaz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4q-I8fSop7c

14. Hezekiah, Sennacherib and Big Surprises

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-O5RHbq3BLI

15. Manasseh and the End of the Assyrian Empire

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iXFsA8gySE

16. Assyria Falls, Babylon Rises, and Josiah Reforms

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyyC7btuHAg

The Assyrians

Masters of War

Episode from the documentary series Ancient Warriors (25:23)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH3hgHUOKUM

The Collapse of the Assyrian Empire and the Evidence of Dur-Katlimmu

Lecture by Hartmut Kühne at the Oriental Institute in Chicago in 2014 (1:02:40)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Hkcz1bg5DY

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Scythians

Barry Cunliffe

The Scythians

Oxford U.

Author Talk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ7Ia_L6bgk

The Scythians:

Nomad Warriors of the Steppe

Barry Cunliffe

Talks at Google

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFsd_LyYZdo

The Scythians: Masters of the steppe

BBC Radio

The Forum

Bridget Kendall hosts Hermann Parzinger, Margarita Gleba and Sir Barry Cunliffe

28 November 2019

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3csyp5r


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		*Continued from previous page, 7. Yellow River* Assyrians, Hittites, Canaanites, Phoenicians, Chaldeans From Bronze to Iron Program 4 of the 1989 lecture series The Western Tradition by Eugen Weber at UCLA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJPrX7ziXbQ The Ancient Near East Animated map from the Every Year series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TXzW4nF7fU ------------ Hittites 1400 - 1200 B. C. The gate to Hattusa, capital city of the Hittites in central Anatolia Hittites - Indo-Europeans from the north, settled in Anatolia; first to develop iron, speakers of the oldest Indo-European language Hittites *Lecture (# 7) by Ethan Spanier from a History 180* course at Whitman College, Spring 2011** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PivX8RTZq7Q Removed from You Tube *Tracking the Frontiers of the Hittite Empire* Lecture by Ann Gunter (2010) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxBMpMR4pqs&feature=related *The Dark Lords of Hattusha* Episode # 3 from the documentary series Lost Cities of the Ancients https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cVfIJikiMI The Hittite Kingdom Lost Superpower of the Bible *Episode about the Hittites of Hattusha from the documentary series Lost Worlds* (44 min.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z9BPAYUnb8 Removed from You Tube Excerpt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0PoG4xoLb8 The Hittites and the Era of the Israelite Judges Excerpt of a lecture on the Bible by Bruce Gore https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfDyto6Jjio The Hittites A Civilization that Changed the World 2003 documentary narrated by Jeremy Irons (3:04:12) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDrmsEueb-Q Empire of the Hittites** Episode # 5 of six of the 1985 BBC documentary series In Search of the Trojan War with Michael Wood (59:54) (See also the Persia and Greece page) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyKIlRqRb58 Tablet with Hittite text in cuneiform script *The Luwians* *A Lost Civilization Comes Back to Life* Lecture by Eberhard Zangger in Klosters, Switzerland on 18 January 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DNyA90f_aw *Luwian Hieroglyphics* Lecture by Petra Goedegebuure at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago on 3 February 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOd_hodh7Mc *Secret Pagan Underworld* *Episode from the documentary series Cities of the Underworld* (2007) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmTg2_ZCW9s Battle of Kadesh** Episode from the documentary series Decisive Battles In 1272 BC the Hittites and Egyptians fought a battle to a draw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8f1FUwTv8Q *Ramses - Raging Chariots* Episode 7, about the Battle of Kadesh, of Season 1 of the documentary series Battles BC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKUfw8uEmr8 *New Discoveries in Ancient Turkey* Lecture by Brian Rose Penn Museum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF8vjpc1oQk *A Tour of Central Turkey* *- Ankara, Konya, Cappadocia* Lecture by John R. Hale From The Great Courses https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dReyRDezmmw ---------------- The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars as seen by Hittites and Luwians Eberhard Zanger and Rita Gautschy Zurich 14 March 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4-2MMBn_is The Hittites Discussion on the weekly BBC radio programme In Our Time hosted by Melvyn Bragg with guests Claudia Glatz, Ilgi Gercek and Christoph Bachhuber 23 December 2021 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0012q5n ------------------- *Canaanites* The Fertile Crescent with Canaan between Mesopotamia and Egypt Canaan Timeline *Add here:* Canaanite Civilization Discussion of the Canaanites and Phoenicians, the characteristics of their civilization, and the texts of Ugarit. Lecture 201-3a by William Hamblin November 2012 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsvUw5g3VmU Canaanite Sacred Symbols Examination of the sacred sites and images of the Canaanites Lecture 201 3b by William Hamblin November 2012 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bFZfDhLLi0 Canaanite Jerusalem Examines the archaeological remains of Canaanite Jerusalem during the Bronze Age (to c. 1500 BC); also the age of Melchizedek Lecture 201 3b 1 by William Hamblin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Qd-qeocv-A ------------------- Phoenicians Phoenician (from Poeni, meaning the colour red or purple) is an Archaic Greek name or term given to sea merchants who inhabited the Semitic Canaanite coastal cities of the Levant such as Sidon, Biblos and Tyre. Phoenicians generally considered themselves Canaanite. Phoenician ship (replica) Phoenician colonies and trade routes ca. 700 B. C. Phoenicians sailed around the African continent (around the Cape of Good Hope) Phoenician colonies and sea voyages Phoenicians and Genetics Spencer Wells (2008) "Genetically . . . the Canaanites, Phoenicians and Lebanese are the same people." 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4V_tskDXAk&feature=related 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZjF5IfuML0 *Lebanese geneticists trace link to Phoenicians* Al Jazeera, Nov 22, 2008 *"Only 27% of Lebanese carry the Phoenician gene."* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvlIrWk9utI Tracing a Lost Civilization - Phoenician & Lebanese DNA *CNN -* *Inside the Middle East* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP7TcPj7UAE *The Quest for the Phoenicians* 2004 National Geographic documentary (52 min.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBObLQZdeq8 or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVwsZnH9y9k Sailing with the Phoenicians *Episode from the documentary series Secrets of Archeology* (2003) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YctseaBS-wE or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gsh3qMWmOTw or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j32yCYm6DFc or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es7GejIyv64 The Phoenicians Discussion on the weekly Thursday BBC radio programme In Our Time hosted by Melvyn Bragg With guests Mark Woolmer, Josephine Quinn and Cyprian Broodbank 6 February 2014 BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03szw8l You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHx17BKaJbE 22-letter Phoenician alphabet How the Phoenicians started the Alphabet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcK-VFFKbCA Egyptian hieroglyphs, Phoenician, Greek and Latin alphabets ----------------------- Assyria Mesopotamia: Babylonia and Assyria Assyria and the Bible Lectures from a bible study course by Bruce Gore** Uploaded in 2015 11. The Assyrian Empire and the Israelite Monarchy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7rSCsDBPZU 12. The Assyrian Empire and Jonah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FZECx74Dmg 13. The Assyrian Empire, Isiah and King Ahaz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4q-I8fSop7c 14. Hezekiah, Sennacherib and Big Surprises https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-O5RHbq3BLI 15. Manasseh and the End of the Assyrian Empire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iXFsA8gySE 16. Assyria Falls, Babylon Rises, and Josiah Reforms https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyyC7btuHAg *The Assyrians* *Masters of War* Episode from the documentary series Ancient Warriors (25:23) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH3hgHUOKUM The Collapse of the Assyrian Empire and the Evidence of Dur-Katlimmu Lecture by Hartmut Kühne at the Oriental Institute in Chicago in 2014 (1:02:40) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Hkcz1bg5DY ----------------- Arameans *THE HIDDEN PEARL* *The History of the Aramean People* Documentary film about the Aramean people, language, culture, religion and traditions 197 minutes HD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PLsZf5y8hU or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJc-h4wWAvg --------------- *Chaldeans* Chaldea (New Babylonian Empire) ------------------- Scythians Barry Cunliffe The Scythians Oxford U. Author Talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ7Ia_L6bgk The Scythians: Nomad Warriors of the Steppe Barry Cunliffe Talks at Google https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFsd_LyYZdo The Scythians: Masters of the steppe BBC Radio The Forum Bridget Kendall hosts Hermann Parzinger, Margarita Gleba and Sir Barry Cunliffe 28 November 2019 https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3csyp5r



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