Hittites Quote by 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

“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

“The Jebusites ... belonged to one or other of these two great races; perhaps, indeed, to both (i.e., Amorites and Hittites).”

— 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

“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

“Amorites must have been in possession of Palestine long before the Hittites arrived there.”

— A. H. SAYCE

“The age of Hittite supremacy belongs to an earlier date than the rise of the monarchy in Israel; earlier, we may even say, than…

— A. H. SAYCE

“This is a very interesting theory, which, when carried out to its logical conclusion, would connect the Hyksos and Hittites racially with the pre-Hellenic…

— Leonard William King

“Hyksos ... have been practically Hittites ... the theory of de Cara, which connects the Hyksos with the Hittites and these with the Pelasgi and Tyrseni.”

— Leonard William King

“Even in ancient days they were, as a rule, shy of 'the Big Folk', as they call us, and now they avoid us with…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“There was thus a Hittite population which clustered round Hebron, and to whom the origin of Jerusalem was partly due.”

— A. H. SAYCE

“After the reconsolidation of the Egyptian people, with perhaps an autocratic class of Semitic origin and a populace of indigenous Nilotic race, we have…

— Leonard William King