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The Hittites
A topic within Mesopotamia & the Ancient Near East, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of History.
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- BookAncient MesopotamiaA. Leo Oppenheim, 1964
Subtitled 'Portrait of a Dead Civilization', and unusually honest about how much of the first literate society we cannot recover.