. The war and the Bagdad railway. d account of the battle,illustrated by numerous pictured representations,on the temple walls at Abu Simbel, at Abydos, atLuxor and Karnak, recounts how at first the battlewent favorably for the Hittites. The king confessesthat at one stage in the encounter he was in dangerof being captured. In the end, however, the Egyp-tians secured the advantage and, if we may trustthe Egyptian chronicler, the Hittites were driven offthe field. Had the fortune of battle gone againstthe Egyptians, a Hittite invasion of Egypt wouldhave been inevitable and the course of Egyptia
. The war and the Bagdad railway. d account of the battle,illustrated by numerous pictured representations,on the temple walls at Abu Simbel, at Abydos, atLuxor and Karnak, recounts how at first the battlewent favorably for the Hittites. The king confessesthat at one stage in the encounter he was in dangerof being captured. In the end, however, the Egyp-tians secured the advantage and, if we may trustthe Egyptian chronicler, the Hittites were driven offthe field. Had the fortune of battle gone againstthe Egyptians, a Hittite invasion of Egypt wouldhave been inevitable and the course of Egyptianhistory would have been radically changed. As itwas, the battle of Kadesh merely marked the zenithof Hittite power, and Egypt could hereafter breathemore freely. Her safety, however, was always de-pendent upon her holding as a minimum foreign pos-session southern Syria to act as a bulwark againstHittite advance. The Hittites under Mursil againundertook an offensive against Egypt, aided by See on this reformer the note on p. THE STORY OF ASIA MINOR 47 Amorites and other groups of Palestine. The tideof war flowed and ebbed until c. 1280 , when anoifensive and defensive treaty between Hattusil, theHittite ruler of Boghaz-Keui, and Rameses II wasdrawn up, of which by a fortunate chance we now haveboth the Egyptian and the Hittite accounts. On thetemple walls of Karnak Rameses records the fact of thereception of the Hittite treaty sent by Hattusil on asilver tablet. Some years later, c. 1266 , to furthermark the friendship now existing between the twoempires, a Hittite princess was added to the haremof Rameses. She was escorted to Egypt by herroyal father, accompanied by a retinue worthy of soextraordinary an occasion. Thus Hittites andEgyptians actually met in the Valley of the Nile. One is reminded of the jealousies and suspicionsof modern powers when one reads on cuneiformdocuments of an inquiry directed by the king ofBabylonia to Hattusil as to the meaning of this
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