. The war and the Bagdad railway. HITTITE ROCK SCULPTURE AT IVRIZ (C. 1000 ). RUINS OF THE ENTRANCE TO A HITTITE FORTRESS ATBOGHAZKEUI (C. I5OO ) THE STOEY OF ASIA MINOR 37 as early at least as 1500 —is one of the mostnotable results of archaeological activity in AsiaMinor. It points to the intercourse that must haveexisted between Asia Minor and the Euphrates Val-ley in the second millenium before this era. Although the Hittite hieroglyphics have not as yetbeen deciphered, the character of the language spokenby the Hittites has been established. It turns outto belong to the Aryan o
. The war and the Bagdad railway. HITTITE ROCK SCULPTURE AT IVRIZ (C. 1000 ). RUINS OF THE ENTRANCE TO A HITTITE FORTRESS ATBOGHAZKEUI (C. I5OO ) THE STOEY OF ASIA MINOR 37 as early at least as 1500 —is one of the mostnotable results of archaeological activity in AsiaMinor. It points to the intercourse that must haveexisted between Asia Minor and the Euphrates Val-ley in the second millenium before this era. Although the Hittite hieroglyphics have not as yetbeen deciphered, the character of the language spokenby the Hittites has been established. It turns outto belong to the Aryan or more properly theIndo-European stock—a somewhat surprising dis-covery, and yet in keeping with the most plausiblehypothesis of the origin of the Hittites from thesteppes of southern Russia as the starting-point ofsuccessive waves of Aryan migration in variousdirections. Looking, however, at the types of Hittite aspictured on their sculptures, one cannot escape thecomparison with Mongoloid types, and this impres-sian is confirmed by the representation of Hittiteson Egypti
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