Hittites Culmination

The Hittites were one of the first major civilizations and dominant power during the Bronze Age.

After Babel fell, the Hittites vied for land with the Arameans and Assyrians, becoming the only people in what became Asia Minor.

The area from Cilicia, to Syria, down to Hebron came under the realm of the Hittites, before the days of Abraham.

As an ethnicity, overtime the Hittites may have gone near extinct due to the Hittite Plague (Hand of Nergal Epidemic) mentioned in Amarna letter (EA 35). As there is no written record that they’ve been vaporized, it is reasonable to assume that they were Assyrianized, Hellenized, then Turkified, not unlike the descendants of many other ancient civilizations, who are members of various but different ethnicities today.

Ethnic Neo-Hittite Dynasties survived in small Kingdoms scattered around the Levant, and Mesopotamia (modern Turkey; Greece; Armenia; Kurdistan; Cyprus; Syria; Lebanon. and Israel/Palestinian Territories).

Syro-Hittite States emerged in the process of such major landscape transformation, in the form of regional States with new political structures and cultural affiliations. David Hawkins was able to trace a Dynastic link between the Hittite Imperial Dynasty and the "Great Kings" and "Country-Lords" of Melid and Karkamish of the Early Iron Age, proving an uninterrupted continuity between the Late Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age at those sites.

Aside of literary evidence, from inscriptions, the uninterrupted cultural endurance of Post-Hittite States in the region, during the transitional period between the Late Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age, is now further confirmed by recent archaeological work at the Temple of the Storm God on the Citadel of Aleppo, and Ain Dara Temple, where the Late Bronze Age Temple buildings continue into the Iron Age without hiatus, with repeated periods of construction in the Early Iron Age.

Lacking perpetuity Hittite successors and descendants scattered and have in large ultimately merged into modern populations the world over. While some have survived in small communes in the areas of modern populations in Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Greece, and Armenia, much of which nestled in the safety of Mount Lebanon as Hitti families, a number of whom (since WW1) culminated in the diaspora of Africa, South America, the USA, Australia, Canada, Europe, and South East Asia…

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Food for thought!