Quote by A. H. SAYCE

“Like the Egyptians, the Hittites sat when eating.”

— A. H. SAYCE

“Even the buckle, with the help of which the prehistoric Greek fastened his cloak, has been shown by a German scholar to imply an…

— A. H. SAYCE

“There are no traces of the Hittites at Shechem or on the eastern side of the Jordan”

— A. H. SAYCE

“Bath-sheba was not only the mother of Solomon, but also the distant ancestress of Christ. For us, therefore, these Hittites of Judæa have a…

— A. H. SAYCE

“The great Hittite stronghold on the Euphrates, which had been for so many centuries the visible sign of their power and southern conquests, became…

— A. H. SAYCE

“Hettites appeal to us not alone because of the influence they once exercised on the fortunes of the Chosen People, not alone because a…

— A. H. SAYCE

“As Membij took the place of Carchemish, so Emesa or Homs took the place of Kadesh.”

— A. H. SAYCE

“The Hittites were intruders in Syria as well as in Western Asia Minor.”

— A. H. SAYCE

“The Hittites and Amorites were therefore mingled together in the mountains of Palestine like the two races which ethnologists tell us go to form…

— A. H. SAYCE

“The Hittites, in fact, must be regarded as the first teachers of the rude populations of the West. They brought to them a culture…

— A. H. SAYCE

“So, too, we may imagine that the sight of the hieroglyphs of Egypt, and the knowledge that thoughts could be conveyed by them, suggested…

— A. H. SAYCE

“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