“As Membij took the place of Carchemish, so Emesa or Homs took the place of Kadesh.” — A. H. SAYCE Copy Share Image
“Amorites must have been in possession of Palestine long before the Hittites arrived there.” — A. H. SAYCE Copy Share Image
“The Hittites were intruders in Syria as well as in Western Asia Minor.” — A. H. SAYCE Syria Copy Share Image
“There are no traces of the Hittites at Shechem or on the eastern side of the Jordan” — A. H. SAYCE Copy Share Image
“We must regard the Amorites as the earlier population, among a part of whom the Hittites in later days settled and intermarried.” — A. H. SAYCE Copy Share Image
“The Hittites, in fact, must be regarded as the first teachers of the rude populations of the West. They brought to them… — A. H. SAYCE Copy Share Image
“The Hittites and Amorites were therefore mingled together in the mountains of Palestine like the two races which ethnologists tell us go… — A. H. SAYCE Celts Copy Share Image
“Elephants' tusks were among the tribute paid by the Hittites to the Assyrian kings. It may be that the extinction of the… — A. H. SAYCE Animal Copy Share Image
“There was thus a Hittite population which clustered round Hebron, and to whom the origin of Jerusalem was partly due.” — A. H. SAYCE Copy Share Image
“The age of Hittite supremacy belongs to an earlier date than the rise of the monarchy in Israel; earlier, we may even… — A. H. SAYCE Copy Share Image
“The Jebusites ... belonged to one or other of these two great races; perhaps, indeed, to both (i.e., Amorites and Hittites).” — A. H. SAYCE Races Copy Share Image
“Bath-sheba was not only the mother of Solomon, but also the distant ancestress of Christ. For us, therefore, these Hittites of Judæa… — A. H. SAYCE Parenting Copy Share Image
“The direction in which the characters look determines the direction in which they should be read. This alternate or boustrophedon mode of… — A. H. SAYCE Writing Copy Share Image
“Kadesh was a Hittite stronghold; nevertheless it is described as being 'in the land of the Amaur' or Amorites, and its king… — A. H. SAYCE Copy Share Image
“So, too, we may imagine that the sight of the hieroglyphs of Egypt, and the knowledge that thoughts could be conveyed by… — A. H. SAYCE Copy Share Image
“Prominent among the Hettite priests were the Galli or eunuchs, who on the days of festival cut their arms and scourged themselves… — A. H. SAYCE Eunuchs Copy Share Image
“The Semite had avenged himself for the conquest of his country by the northern mountaineers centuries before. They no longer formed a… — A. H. SAYCE Copy Share Image
“How the resurrection of Hittites has been accomplished, by putting together the fragmentary evidence of Egyptian and Assyrian inscriptions, of strange-looking monuments… — A. H. SAYCE Copy Share Image
“Even the buckle, with the help of which the prehistoric Greek fastened his cloak, has been shown by a German scholar to… — A. H. SAYCE Fashion Copy Share Image
“It is clear, then, that the Amorites of Canaan belonged to the same white race as the Libyans of Northern Africa, and… — A. H. SAYCE White race Copy Share Image
“Hettites appeal to us not alone because of the influence they once exercised on the fortunes of the Chosen People, not alone… — A. H. SAYCE Ancient greece Copy Share Image
“It is not probable that the Hittite system of writing passed away without leaving its influence behind it ... There is reason… — A. H. SAYCE Writing Copy Share Image
“The same double-headed eagle, supporting the figure of a man or a god, is met with at Boghaz Keui, and must be… — A. H. SAYCE Art Copy Share Image
“The great Hittite stronghold on the Euphrates, which had been for so many centuries the visible sign of their power and southern… — A. H. SAYCE Copy Share Image
