Power carved in clay, borders drawn in fire.
The Legacy of Suppiluliuma: Hittite Power and Influence—cuneiform tablets and royal decrees that chart a prince’s rise to an empire.
They bind vassals by oath, parade victories in Syria, and echo the Egyptian queen’s desperate plea.
Scribes wrote in Akkadian; on distant roads, early alphabetic scratches—Proto-Sinaitic—flickered to life.
Together, these marks reveal how war, worship, and writing remade the Bronze Age.