Empire of the Hittites

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In Part 5 of the BBC series, "In Search of the Trojan War," Michael Woods searches for decisive documental evidence of the Trojan War in clay tablets from the Hittite Empire, housed in the State Museum in Berlin. Woods follows the journey of King Hattusili iii to the Greek kingdoms on the coast of Anatolia, as referenced in a letter from Hattusili to the Achaean King that may have been Agamemnon himself. Different levels at the Hisarlik Mound have revealed Troy 6 and 7, thought to be the city of Willusia, a Hittite ally, caught in recurrent conflicts between the Mycenaean and Hittite Empires.

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1 hr 0 min 38 sec

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