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"Hittites"? As Emeritus Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, James D. Muhly, remarked: "The first thing to realize about the Hittites is that thsey are not Hittites."
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𒄩𒀜𒌅𒊭 (ᴷHa•tᵊ•tūꞋsha); endonym of LBAC Anatolian (W Turkey) NëꞋshan language speakers—the 1ˢᵗ land & naval architecture super-culture & seafaring world superpower.
The NëꞋshan cuneiform was transliterated into BH: 
, which evolved into MSH: mytk.
It is unlikely that the two were confused in BH. The (MH: כִּתִּים)—notice that … is not easily confused with …
—were autochthonous to Anatolia, having evolved there from (pre-human) Gondwana, Pangea times; whereas the BH: 
(MH: בְּנֵי־חֵת) descended from (i.e. the 2ⁿᵈ son of) the (Semitic-speaking) Kᵊna•anꞋ, son of , having also evolved there from (pre-human) Gondwana, Pangea times.
Based on the Hellenized Greek transgarble in the Septuagint, Χετταῖοι, this was thereafter widely then conflusenced with "Hethites" of Kᵊna•an´ by Christian-, followed by Muslim-era clergies, religious arts-degreed historians & archaeologists grinding their respective religious axes.
In Hebrew, this evolved into MH: כתים / ᴷHit•imꞋ — colonists of both Cyprus and Crete (e.g., Knossos) Islands.
Still later, when the Vikings were discovering America in the 10ᵗʰ century CE, the Masoretes first vowelized this into כִּתִּים / Kit²•imꞋ; Biblical "Kittim"—today a thorough muddle called "Hittites" (and, beginning in early 1940s CE, called "Minoans").
"[T]he story of humanity reached a turning point, transiting from a life of primarily hunting to animal husbandry and [from primarily-gathering] to subsistence agriculture [from "hunting and gathering to subsistence agriculture and animal husbandry (with some hunting and gathering)"]. This transition [is called] the 'Neolithic revolution', [and] appeared at different times in different parts of the world...
"[A]nalysis of ancient DNA samples from all over the Near East sheds light on that conundrum, report Drs. Iosif Lazaridis, Songül Alpaslan-Roodenberg, Ron Pinhasi and David Reich of Harvard University, and a giant international team, in Science. The early farmers were not pure locals. There were two pulses of migration into Anatolia during the early Neolithic."
The earliest people, c 14 Ka (≈BCE 12k), were autochthonous, a Northern Mesopotamian admixture, more correctly, the northernmost arc of the Fertile Crescent.
The second migration into Neolithic Anatolia was from A•dãm•ãhꞋ, beginning about ≈9 Ka.
"In other words, the incomers didn’t supplant or extinguish the locals; they admixed. Thus, the early farmers of Anatolia have three distinct deep hunter-gatherer ancestries: Anatolian, Mesopotamian and Levantine three distinct deep hunter-gatherer ancestries: Gondwanan-Ancestry Anatolian-Shæm, Gondwanan-Ancestry Mesopotamian-Shæm and [Gondwanan-Ancestry Adamah-Shæm Levantine; not " Natufian"!!!], Lazaridis sums up. P Actually, all the sampled Neolithic populations throughout Middle East are a mixture of these three deep sources, Lazaridis says." "From Israel, for example, the team analyzed DNA from two groups: six pre-Neolithic Natufians from about 13,000 years ago…
"Put otherwise, none of these populations – not in Anatolia or in the Levant or southern Mesopotamia – descended from just one of these three sources, Lazaridis stresses. But the Neolithic people of the Levant have more Natufian than other sources, for example.
"Göbekli Tepe is the world's oldest example of monumental architecture; a 'temple' built at the end of the last Ice Age, 12,000 years ago (12Ka, BCE 10,000)."
Ancient Anatolia (today's Turkey), the eastern coastal lands of the Mediterranean, along with Africa (and Egypt), are all autochthonous Semitic cousins from pre-human Gondwana, Pangea times (as contrasted against European or Asian—Pangean EurAsia—on the far side of the planet).
Seemingly miraculously aware of distant ancient geotectonic lore-based knowledge, Ta•na״khꞋ categorized autochthonous Greeks, by contrast, as Hellenic (Helladic) Greek Ἴωνες, son of יפת, who descended in independently parallel evolution from pre-human times, on the far side of the planet—Pangean EurAsia!!!
Rich In (Fire-making) Godstone & Other Natural Resources, the ᴷHa•tᵊ•tūꞋsha Became the 1ˢᵗ World Leaders In Technology; The 1ˢᵗ World Land & Naval-Marine Superpower
The ᴷHa•tᵊ•tūꞋsha (Anatolian) eclipsed each of their predecessor cousins' citydoms in succession. Thus, they became delineated from their neighboring cousins—originally the KʰatꞋti, then the KʰãrꞋri — KʰãrꞋri (or, perhaps conflusenced into, KʰūrꞋri (possibly חֹרִים, KʰōrꞋim, vowelized in 10ᵗʰ century CE, probably should properly be KʰūrꞋri) before these were eclipsed by the ᴷHa•tᵊ•tūꞋsha who became the 1ˢᵗ (known) World Land & Sea Superpower.
The ᴷHa•tᵊ•tūꞋsha became the paradigm for citydoms jostling for leadership over neighboring cousin citydoms to crescendo into a confederation of kingdoms—the first world superpower empire!
The oldest known ᴷH•ūrꞋri residents of the NëꞋsha citydom. Soon, their friendly cousin neighbor city ᴷHa•tᵊ•tūꞋsha, outpaced NëꞋsha, with the result that the KʰūrꞋri of NëꞋsha were absorbed by their successor, and far more successful, neighboring NëꞋsha-speaking Anatolian cousins: the ᴷHa•tᵊ•tūꞋsha!
qqq25 ᴷHatᵊtūsh´a info to incorporate? (& # remaining worksites)
≈BCE 539, Tzūr eclipsed Tzi•yᵊd•ōnꞋ citydom. Both seem to have been known by foreigners by their exonym (Phoenicians). Cedar for ships
However, the initially powerful citydom doesn't always become the center of its own empire. This can also be seen somewhat later with the Tzi•yᵊd•ōnꞋ citydom. As it grew, its sister city, Tzūr, outpaced them, becoming the better known Tzūr co-colonizers (along with their more powerful cousins, the Kʰa•tᵊ•tūꞋsha) of the Aegean, operating marine trade routes through the Mediterranean and Eastern Atlantic Seas to trade as far as Portugal and Spain; and east (probably via the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers into the Persian Gulf—there was no Suez Canal) extending their marine traderoutes along India and China. The island known today as Santorini was first a Tzūr colony we also know today by a Hellenized garble of their name Thæra! And you know these people, but only by an exonym named after their national Phoenix-bird emblem (based on a real Chinese bird acquired along their international marine trade route), prominent on the bowsprit of their ships: the Phoenicians! And no, they were not the still later (post-LBAC) Pūlossians (nor even Greek!)!
qqq24 Kitim info to incorporate? (& # remaining worksites)
Pronunciation of Kit•imꞋ is distinguished from
qqq23 2 ss may have been in next sspan? (fixed) (& # remaining worksites)
MSH: (k•t•ū•shꞋ) was then probably confused in a worn parchment with MSH:
(k•t•i•m); also the name of a province of Anatolia on the NW coast of the Mediterranean. MH: כִּתִּים (ᴷHit²•imꞋ).
Transgarbling via LBAC Dark Ages Greek to Latin to English produced the misnomer exonym: \’\’Hittites\’\’..
This mythical misnomer ascribed to their indigenous Anatolian predecessors, the ᴷH•ãrꞋri (original colonizers of Crete), was first concocted in the 1940s CE by British archaeologist Arthur Evans: \’\’Minoans\’\’.
qqq22 misnomer Minoans (& # remaining worksites)
Early western "Indiana Jones"-style art-adventurer (European-Christian) "theologian archaeologists", assumed that the "Hittites" must correlate to the חִתִּים in Ta•na״khꞋ (bᵊReish•itꞋ 10.15 with 15.20). They were not the same people.
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Scientists, geophysicists and geneticists in particular, are partially, irrefutably correct: in ridiculing all "organized religions", which are comprised of physicomorphic clergies who primitively and superstitiously insist that their god(s) are supernatural (contrary to the natural laws of Omniscient Creator, יְהוָׂה). Even many clergies acknowledge that the "Bible" is the product of ancient oral lore, much later committed to writing. Since it is a violation of Tōr•ãhꞋ to attribute human (or other) physicality to יְהוָׂה (physicomorphism), human claims that "the Bible" was physically written by God's Hand would be Self-Violating—Imperfect, like humans. Ergo, Biblical lore, like the lore of other civilizations, is the ancient, "best (not perfect) human understanding" of the universe and human origins. Modern learning should hone that understanding, not bury it in Tōr•ãhꞋ-violating supernatural physicomorphism! What sets the Ta•na״khꞋ apart from all other loreal accounts was Avᵊrã•hãm´'s logical reasoning, based on the best science of his time, recognizing that יְהוָׂה can only be a Singularity!
Further confusing the "Hittites" is the archaeologically-embarrassing fabrication of several fabled peoples that never existed; particularly the "mysterious" "Minoans"! (No wonder the "Minoans" haven't been identified, "Minoans" never existed!) Rather, artifacts attributed to the "Minoans" should be identified as the autochthonous Anatolians—the KʰūrꞋri (aka KʰãrꞋri, of the city, and language, of NëꞋsha) citydom.
Transitioned To MSH Semitic NëꞋsha cuneiform 𒄩𒀜𒌅𒊭 transliterated directly into Semitic BH 
(ᴷhᵊ or Kᵊ) •tūshꞋ. "ᴷhᵊ", simplified in modern languages to "H", likely led to the array of Anatolian "Hattians", "Hittites", "Kitim", "Kittim" confused with "Hethites", "Chethites", et al.
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 While the Table of Nations was recorded as scribes in the Biblical era understood them, they reflect good insight for that era. |
The earliest records in these languages comprise handwritten accounting or receipts of 𒄩𒀜𒌅𒊭 and MSH 𐤑𐤓 marine merchants recording transactions with Semites and Egyptians—translating each other's languages, on shards of pottery or whatever was handy, in the coastal ports around the eastern Mediterranean Basin. Anyone who has struggled to read poor business records in unlined handwriting may have a glimmer of the problem in reading ancient handwritten transcriptions by a ᴷHa•tᵊ•tūꞋsha ship's Captain/Purser, transliterating in a language foreign to him (ancient Hebrew or Egyptian), on unlined and uneven shards of pottery.
While discrepancies were probably relatively trivial at the time, the effects of varied handwriting and uneven lines, significantly worsened by millennia of erosion, obliterated parts of letters and left tops of parts of some letters muddled with bottoms of parts of other letters. It then becomes understandable how the BH transliteration of the NëꞋsha word, ᴷHa•tᵊ•tūꞋsha () could have been easily confused with , particularly if the space to the right of the seemed too large and eroded, suggesting it may have been a . That would have constituted a masc. pl. Hebrew ending: □ (MH ים□, -im) that a Hebrew-speaker would have expected to see appended to the stem ("ᵏhat"), producing → (ᵏhat•imꞋ)—or, if (more than 2 millennia after the fact, and after spoken Hebrew had gone extinct) the Masoretes were right, "Kit" → (Kit•imꞋ)!!!
In either case, the SeiphꞋër Tōr•ãhꞋ, having never been vowelized, is correct!!!
This gives rise to a seeming paradox. The earliest Greek Codices (Sinaiticus and Vaticanus), are half a millennium older than the earliest Hebrew Codices (Sassoon and Aleppo). The majority of the pre-DSS Christian scholarly world argued that 1ˢᵗ-century CE Jews of (Hellenized) "Palestine" spoke Greek, not Hebrew. Ergo, proponents of Greek argued, the Greek text (they neglect to mention that only the Greek "documents" their "New Testament") was more authoritative "Bible" than Hebrew. From that, they "concluded" that the Χεττιειμ (CHettieim) of Codex Sinaiticus, contrary to being differentiated from the בני חת (Bᵊn•eiꞋ Kʰæt (of Kᵊna•anꞋ) in the earliest Hebrew codices, were identical with the Anatolian כתים (pre-Masoretic ᵏH•t•i•m) of Anatolia—commonly "Hittites".
However, the DSS changed all that, demonstrating that Ta•na״khꞋ was originally in Hebrew, not Greek! Ergo, Hebrew is authoritative and the two peoples are different. The בני חת and cognate חִתִּים of Kᵊna•anꞋ were distinct from the כתים—probably כַתִּים in contrast to the Masoretic כִּתִּים—of Anatolia!
That case highlights a significant problem with the Greek in that Greek introduced foreign garbles (transgarblations) that, in places, significantly alter the meanings. For example, Greek has only 2 letters, κ (kappa) and χ (khi), to represent 5 Semitic (language family, e.g., Hebrew, whether pre-writing, cuneiform or ãlꞋëphbeit) consonants that range from K to H in 5 steps. This gap in alphabets has misled many modern scholars' attempts to understand the peoples of the ancient world; causing chaos that still reigns among "authoritative" archaeology scholars today.
Hence, confusion has reigned between Hattians, Hurrians, Hattushans, Hittites, Luwians, Palaians; and keeping straight the difference between their Hebraized name, (Anatolian) ᴷhit•imꞋ, vs (Kᵊna•anꞋ) Kʰit•imꞋ (Bᵊn•eiꞋ Kʰæt). My convention attempts to (eventually) resolve earlier confusions. It isn't feasible to spend a lifetime going back to correct all of the earlier info before this realization; even in my own website—particularly when it's imperative, instead, to learn to read and rely on the Hebrew Ta•na״khꞋ instead of depending on transgarblations; elevating those perversions to displace "Bible"; as I've relentlessly required from day one!
Evolves Into MSH , 
Garbles To 
To 
MSH: The evolution of the Hebrew ãlꞋëphbeit preserved the similarities in the final letters discussed above. Preference for Hebraization of ᴷHa•tᵊ•tūꞋsha—as Kit•imꞋ—increased over time, until it became cemented in Ta•na״khꞋ.
The primary remaining questions are whether modern scholars are wrong about the hardness of the initial consonant, כ (ᴷH) or כּ (K) and the initial vowel ("a"? or "i"?) or the Masoretes were wrong about it being "k" & "i", respectively. Knowledge amassed since the time of the Masoretes advantages the latest science-educated scholars. However, the 19ᵗʰ-20ᵗʰ century CE archaeologists have, in several significant questions (particularly dating), proven far off course. In any case, the convention in printing contemporary Hebrew Ta•na״khꞋ, כִּתִּים (Kit•imꞋ, Anglicized to "Kittim") is the MH term referring to the ᴷHa•tᵊ•tūꞋsha.
Even if this only happened occasionally,
BH then transitioned straight into the MSH
qqq20 transition to MSH k•t•ū•shꞋ img (& # remaining worksites)
.MSH: (k•t•ū•shꞋ) was then probably confused by an uneven scribal handwriting with MSH: (k•t•i•m); also the name of a province of Anatolia on the NW coast of the Mediterranean. MH: כִּתִּים (""Kittim"").
Transgarbling via LBAC Dark Ages Greek to Latin to English produced the misnomer exonym: \’\’Hittites\’\’..
This mythical misnomer ascribed to their indigenous Anatolian predecessors, the ᴷH•ãrꞋri (original colonizers of Crete), was first concocted in the 1940s CE by British archaeologist Arthur Evans: ""Minoans"". This misnomer was then promulgated upon their successors: the ᴷHatᵊtūsh´a/Kit•imꞋ. cousins' citydom that forged the first confederation of Anatolian citydoms, coordinating their resources and power.
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Ancient Egyptians lumped all of these "enemies from the sea" as simply "Sea Peoples". Traditional 19th and early 20th century CE Eurocentric arts-degreed historians and archaeologists (as contrasted to recent hard scientists specializing in these and related fields, making important strides in dating, etc.) were unable to pick up the trail of these mysterious ancient peoples. Consequently, the archaeologists made an unscientific and confused mess: conflating a series of successive ruling Anatolian citydoms, on the one hand, while distinguishing the same citydoms as unrelated. Unable to properly identify the origin or the peoples of the bones and artifacts they were excavating, the archaeologists began to simply fabricate their own names to label the excavated ancient bones of "John or Jane Does", often naming them after an unrelated modern-name the location where they found the artifacts. Thus, the ancient peoples became orphaned from each other in modern nomenclature; lost "ancient aliens".
This confusion is further driven by personal bias of the archaeologists—European whites regarding themselves intellectually and culturally descended from Classical Greeks (wrongly including Pelopónnese and Anatolia as original Greece (European). Even today, Europeans remain fiercely defensive, adamantly insisting that post-LBAC Pelopónnese and Anatolian "Greek Europeans" (rather than African-related Pelopónnese and Anatolians) have always been and must today remain the sole indigenous claimants to Pelopónnese, Anatolia and Cyprus origins.
Thus, the west-east longitudinal geotectonic "seam" running through Pelopónnese and Turkey, where the two continents were joined, differentiates the Laurussian (European) continent from the subducting African continent (with its Cimmerian Terranes island chain). This "seam" then becomes increasingly critical in distinguishing ancient African-cousin (Anatolian-Pelopónnese) Homo subspecies from European/Greek-cousins Homo subspecies, as well as their artifacts.
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 1200x1320.png "Click to enlarge"){kind=small}  260Ma: Ancient Anatolia (Modern Turkey)—followed by A•dãm•ãhꞋ (Meditteranean east coast, including Yi•sᵊr•ã•eilꞋ), Arabia & the entire continent of Africa (Geotect 260Ma Stampfli) |
The ᴷHatᵊtūsh´a/Kit•imꞋ NëꞋshan-speakers were the earliest, likely autochthonous, human inhabitants of Anatolia (modern western Turkey) along with the other "ocean-like" islands—particularly Pelopónnese, Crete and Cyprus—that are now part of the Cycladic civilization remnant of the Cimmerian Terranes group.
In our modern era, archaeologists have transgarbled, conflated and confused ᴷHatᵊtūsh´a/Kit•imꞋ into our modern-vernacular as "Harri[ans]", "NëꞋshans", "Hattians", "Hittites", "Kittim"—and the modern, entirely-fictitious name, "Minoans"!
ᴷHatᵊtūsh´a, Hebraized to כִּתִּים (Kit•imꞋ)—were the earliest, autochthonous series of successive NëꞋshan (later, apparently, Luwian) -speaking Anatolian citydom-confederations.
qqq19 Kupros (& # remaining worksites)
The confederation of the ᴷHatᵊtūsh´a (Hebraized to Kit•imꞋ) (conflated and transgarbled to "Hittites", "Minoans", etc.) enabled them to develop the first and most advanced human civilization of that era, the first superpower of the ancient world: the Eastern Basin of the Mediterranean Sea. This advanced civilization comprised truly seaworthy shipbuilding architecture technology, building the world's first international cargo and naval fleets. In addition to their land-based caravans, their unique and exclusive fleet of seaworthy ships (partially dependent upon Tzūran cypress wood, was paid for in seaworthy ᴷHatᵊtūsh´a/Kit•imꞋ ships, which,in turn, boosted Tzūr into international maritime trade) enabled the ᴷHatᵊtūsh´a/Kit•imꞋ to becoome the world's first international land & sea superpower and international traders; navigating and controlling the Mediterranean Sea.
𐤑𐤓 Island-Colony on 𐤊𐤕𐤉 Island probably transgarbled to—Kupros
כִּתִּים colony-city of Κίτιον, on SE coast of Cyprus; sons of אֱלִישָׁ֣ה son of Yauan son of Yephet) bᵊReishit 10.4=Aegaean maritime people, "Josephus (Ant. 1:128) identified Kittim with Kition, or Kitti, a Phoenician city on the island of *Cyprus near present-day Larnaca, an identification accepted by most scholars." [probably having been colonized by Kit•imꞋ from Ka•phᵊtōrꞋ (Crete); "Minoans" = nonexistent!
Later 
—Modern Hebrew כִּתִּיִּים or כִּתִּים (pl.); still later Κύπρος Kit•imꞋ Colony: Qū•pᵊr•y (BCE 15ᵗʰ century Linear-B, modern Cyprus).
It appears that because of its proximity to the Bᵊn•eiꞋ-ÕdãmꞋ on the mainland of A•dãm•ãhꞋ, was the earliest to be colonized by (Semitic) Bᵊn•eiꞋ-ÕdãmꞋ. The name of this people, Bᵊn•eiꞋ-ÕdãmꞋ, and their land, A•dãm•ãhꞋ, was lost due to failure to recognize that these were more than mere descriptions, they were the name of the indigenous people and their land.
These Semitic Bᵊn•eiꞋ-ÕdãmꞋ and their homeland, A•dãm•ãhꞋ, were later called TzūrꞋi•ans and Kᵊna•an(•im)Ꞌ.
Bᵊn•eiꞋ-ÕdãmꞋ, out of A•dãm•ãhꞋ, subsequently identified with the indigenous inhabitants of the Greek-Aegean islands; particularly modern Cyprus. Kit•imꞋ, a great-grandson of NōꞋakh, was the son of the patriarch of the Greeks: 
, later Greek Ἴωνες, who was the ultimate origin of the cross-assimilating religious-culture that would later, following the widespread forcible export of Ἴωνες culture by Alexander (B.C.E. 356-323), become known as Ἑλλάς — Hellenism. Though Scripture associates כִּתִּים with several entities, the one distinguishing theme every instance shares is Hellenism.
qqq18 Khattusha vs Tzur (Phoenician) Sea Lanes (& # remaining worksites)
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ᴷHatᵊtūsh´a (aka 𐤊𐤕𐤉), collectively transgarbled to modern "Hattians" & "Hittites")—Autochthonous Anatolians (modern western Turkey) defined by their NëꞋshan language.
The Anatolian NëꞋshan-speakers were neighboring citydoms of the central and southern-coast Mediterranean regions of western Turkey, who serially predominated their collective confederation of land and seafaring "superpower" citydoms. Muddled and fragmented by modern archaeologists to mere sequential individual citydoms, the ᴷHatᵊtūsh´a/Kit•imꞋ were the world's first land and sea superpower!
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The principal god, in the Taurus-God Stone (pyrite) region of the Central Taurus Mountain Range of the ᴷHatᵊtūsh´a, was 𒋫𒀀𒊒 the ancient weather-god of lightning & the mace, the Bull-god of the Taurus constellation); Hebraized to Tarshish and (during the LBAC ) Hellenized to Taurus/Tarsus. In modern times, since the first commercially successful lighter reached the masses in 1932 CE (when my father was 20 years old; the Zippo), eliminated the work and tedium of ancient fire-making by striking flint with pyrite, we only know pyrite today as “Fool’s gold”!
The Hebrew for pyrite, Ta•rᵊshishꞋ, seems to have developed as a transgarbling of the Greek θαρσος. Thus, this Hebrew term likely reflects the Hellenization taking place during the post-Ramses era (like the use of the name Ramses itself).
The ᴷHatᵊtūsh´a/Kit•imꞋ succeeded the first neighbor-citydom: the ᴷH•ãrꞋri, who were the world's first international land and sea superpower; navigating and controlling the Mediterranean Sea. ᴷHatᵊtūsh´a eventually eclipsed their NëꞋsha-speaking ᴷH•ãrꞋri neighbors, becoming the "unidentified" Naval superpower to whom the Egyptians would later refer to collectively (including the Tzūr•imꞋ) as the "Sea Peoples".
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| Table of Ancient Peoples (bᵊReish•itꞋ 10). Circa BCE 2629, emergence of written language: NōꞋakh first codifies lore of then-ancient Flood (cBCE 5500) |
Like the fictitious exonyms fabricated by modern "Indiana Joneses" for ancient peoples they couldn't identify (e.g., "Minoans" & "Natufians"), the name "Hittite" is also an embarrassment to scholars, who contentiously (and cavalierly) evade the issue while claiming that they're helpless to correct it. As Emeritus Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Pennsylvania James D. Muhly remarked, "The first thing to realize about the Hittites is that they are not Hittites."
Scholars are divided whether חִתִּים (ᴷHit•imꞋ, "Het"-ites), sons of חֵֽת "ᴷHæt", who lived in the vicinity of Khë•vᵊr•ōnꞋ and, by the Biblical era, were reported living all around the north and east regions of the Mediterranean Basin as well as Anatolia, were part of the Kit•imꞋ. When one takes into account the geotectonic factors of the previous 5 megaannia, then it seems more difficult to explain how those out of Africa, Egypt, Anatolia and the Arabian peninsula could have been not autochthonous to these lands. When you read or hear "Hittite", they were, in Hebrew, the
qqq17 broken span חִתִּים (& # remaining worksites)
MH: כִּתִּים (Kit•imꞋ), popularly \’\’Kittim\’\’ (because of the dagesh in the ת); indigenous Anatolians (of ancient western Turkey) & colonists of both Cyprus and Crete (e.g., Knossos) Islands.
Pronunciation of Kit•imꞋ is distinguished from Khit•imꞋ only by the דָּגֵשׁ (dã•gæshꞋ, the little dot in the middle of the letter), which wasn\'t added until ≈10th century CE—after the extinction of spoken Hebrew (click this link, then \'\'more\'\' link in glossary entry). כִּתִּים probably derived from כָּתַת (kãt•atꞋ, to beat down, pound, crush).
כִּתִּים (Kit•imꞋ) should not be confused with the Kᵊna•an•imꞋ חִתִּים (Khit•imꞋ, sons of Khæt), transgarbled via LBAC Dark Ages Greek to Latin to English conflation of \’\’Hethites\’\’ & \’\’Hittites\’\’.
','#dfefff', 340)"; onMouseout="hideddrivetip()">𐤊𐤕𐤉 of the Ta•na״khꞋ!Just as the Tzi•yᵊd•ōnꞋi•an's citydom was eventually overshadowed by their fellow-Tzūran's citydom, the ᴷHatᵊtūsh´a called themselves after their predominant city (ᴷHatᵊtūsh´a) in their NëꞋshan language inherited from their predecessors, the ᴷH•ãrꞋri[ans] (vide infra).
qqq16 broken span, Citydoms MSH (& # remaining worksites)
MH: כִּתִּים (Kit•imꞋ), popularly \’\’Kittim\’\’ (because of the dagesh in the ת); indigenous Anatolians (of ancient western Turkey) & colonists of both Cyprus and Crete (e.g., Knossos) Islands.
Pronunciation of Kit•imꞋ is distinguished from Khit•imꞋ only by the דָּגֵשׁ (dã•gæshꞋ, the little dot in the middle of the letter), which wasn\'t added until ≈10th century CE—after the extinction of spoken Hebrew (click this link, then \'\'more\'\' link in glossary entry). כִּתִּים probably derived from כָּתַת (kãt•atꞋ, to beat down, pound, crush).
כִּתִּים (Kit•imꞋ) should not be confused with the Kᵊna•an•imꞋ חִתִּים (Khit•imꞋ, sons of Khæt), transgarbled via LBAC Dark Ages Greek to Latin to English conflation of \’\’Hethites\’\’ & \’\’Hittites\’\’.
In Ta•na״khꞋ During The LBAC qqq15 ShipsTarshish (& # remaining worksites)
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| Ancient Port 𒋫𒅈𒊭, Anatolia (modern Turkey). Map: Eastern Mediterranean Basin, Aegean & Black Seas, Middle East. (Google Maps) |
Middle Semitic TzūrꞋan (Phoenician) Aramaic Hebrew; (requires Paleo Hebrew Regular, download from https://hebrewfonts.net/fonts/paleo-hebrew-regular and Evyoni Palaeo, download from https://hebrewfonts.net/fonts/evyoni-palaeo-regular).
qqq14 broken span (& # remaining worksites)
< ¶ ᴷHa•tᵊ•tūꞋsha, endonym of LBA Anatolian (W Turkey) NëꞋshan-language, 1ˢᵗ land & naval architecture super-culture & seafaring world superpower. (Note: Cuneiforms are read left-to-right. NëꞋshan cuneiforms require \’\’Segoe UI Historic\’\’ font—as distinguished from Sumerian or Akkadian; cuneiforms.)
The NëꞋshan cuneiform was transliterated into BH: & MSPAH:
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MH: כִּתּוּשׁ (ki•tūshꞋ) was then likely transgarbled to MSPAH: , k•t•y•m a province of Anatolia on the NW coast of the Mediterranean (MH: כִּתִּים)—\’\’Kittim\’\’.
Transgarbling via LBAC Dark Ages Greek to Latin to English produced the misnomer exonym: \’\’Hittites\’\’..
This mythical misnomer ascribed to their indigenous Anatolian predecessors, the ᴷH•ãrꞋrians (original colonizers of Crete), was first concocted in the 1940s CE by British archaeologist Arthur Evans: \’\’Minoans\’\’. This misnomer was then promulgated upon their successors, the ᴷHa•tᵊ•tūꞋsha.
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BH: KTY; MH: כִּתִּים (Kit•imꞋ), popularly \’\’Kittim\’\’ (because of the dagesh in the ת); indigenous Anatolians (of ancient western Turkey) & colonists of both Cyprus and Crete (e.g., Knossos) Islands.
Pronunciation of Kit•imꞋ is distinguished from ᴷhit•imꞋ only by the דָּגֵשׁ (dã•gæshꞋ, the little dot in the middle of the letter)—which wasn\'t added until ≈10th century CE! כִּתִּים probably derived from כָּתַת (kãt•atꞋ, to beat down, pound, crush).
כִּתִּים (Kit•imꞋ) should not be confused with the Kᵊna•an•imꞋ חִתִּים (Kʰit•imꞋ, sons of Khæt), transgarbled via LBAC Dark Ages Greek to Latin to English conflation of \’\’Hethites\’\’ & \’\’Hittites\’\’.
','#dfefff', 300)"; onMouseout="hideddrivetip()">𐤊𐤕𐤉sacked in the 12th or 13th century… Hittite records toward the end of their empire are now lost but the Egyptians recorded a number of cities in Anatolia as having been destroyed by the Sea Peoples, among them Troy, Miletus, and Tarsus.; https://www.worldhistory.org/Tarsus/
Dating back to the Neolithic era, ancient ᴷHatᵊtūsh´a Port 𒋫𒅈𒊭, in Anatolia (modern Turkey), was the primary maritime port of the entire Mediterranean Sea. The ancient port was a lagoon on the Taurus (Arabic Berdan, "Cold Water") River.
Until the 6th century, the Taurus River "[ran] through the midst of the city of Tarsus, and appears to have done no injury to it at any time except once, when it caused great destruction in the following manner: the season was spring-time, and a south wind, which suddenly began to blow with great strength, melted all the snow with which in winter-time the Tarsus Mountains are almost entirely covered. In 138 consequence of this streams of water ran down from every part of those mountains, all the ravines poured down torrents, and numerous springs inundated all the skirts of the Tarsus range. The river Cydnus, swollen high by these waters which were poured into it by its tributaries, and by heavy rains which afterwards fell, overflowed and entirely washed away all the suburbs of Tarsus on the southern side, poured furiously into the city, sweeping away the bridges, which were of slight construction, inundated all the streets and market-places, and even rose as high as the upper stories of the houses. For a night and a day the city remained in this danger and distress, after which the river gradually retired and returned to its usual bed. When the Emperor Justinian heard of this, he devised the following plan. In the first place, he prepared a second channel for the river outside the city, in order that it might there divide its stream, and might only pour half its waters upon the city of Tarsus: next, he built the bridges very much wider, and rendered them too strong to be swept away by the flooded Cydnus. Thus he enabled the inhabitants of the city to dwell in it without alarms or dangers for the future." As a result, remnants of the ancient lagoon are now 20km/12mi inland from the northeastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea and ancient Tarshish lies under the modern city, precluding most excavations.
Ta•rᵊshishꞋ, likely became synonymous with the greater surrounding administrative district to include the Taurus {"Minoan" Bull} Mountain Range (i.e. Tarhuntassa). "The ancient name, [𒋫𒅈𒊭, Ta•rᵊ•sha], is derived from, the original name given to the city by the [ᴷHa•tᵊ•tūꞋsha], who were [the autochthonous Gondwanan-ancestry natives] of the region. That in turn was possibly derived from the name of the storm god Tarḫunz."
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 Eastern Hemisphere: From Ta•rᵊshishꞋ to Eilat & on to Ophir (modern Vaypura), India. |
ShᵊlōmꞋ•h ha-mëlꞋëkh received a shipment from אוֹפִיר, India, every three years. These triennial maritime shipments from India consisted of gold, silver, fragrant Indian sandalwood, pearls, ivory, peacocks, Indian Hoolock, hoolock apes and monkeys. In Ta•na״khꞋ, Mᵊlãkh•imꞋ and Di•vᵊr•eiꞋ- tell of a joint expedition to אוֹפִיר, by ShᵊlōmꞋ•h ha-mëlꞋëkh and חִירָ֑ם, mëlꞋëkh Tzūr, from Yi•sᵊr•ã•eilꞋ's port of עֶצְי֥וֹן גָּֽבֶר, on the Red Sea.
Later, after Yᵊhō•shã•phãtꞋ, MëlꞋëkh YᵊhudꞋãh, "improved" the Kit•imꞋ ships 🙄, his expeditionary fleet to אוֹפִיר proved unseaworthy and the fleet was lost!
Modern readers are increasingly accustomed to reading clearly printed publications. Accordingly, the usual reader may not appreciate how readings of scholars aren't always as straightforward as they allow to be assumed. Puzzling real ancient cuneiform tablets or MSH ostraca can be very confuzzling (see photo).
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 cBCE 600 Middle Semitic Hebrew-Phoenician-Aramaic ostraca from Arad; TAU |
Kʰa•tᵊ•tūꞋsha was evidently later transgarbled to ᴷHa•tᵊ•tūꞋsha (the initial hard consonant becoming softened (internationalized, Hellenized due to extensive maritime shipping & trade—opposite to the Semitic pattern), then further transgarbled to "Hatti", their land to "Hatti-land" and their alephbet (and probably sometimes their language as well) "Hatti". Eventually, these were transgarbled to "Hittite(s)" (losing the hard initial consonant entirely)—instead of the exonym "Kittites" (Hebrew exonym: "Kittim"). These should all properly be identified by their (approximate) transliterated endonym: ᴷHatᵊtūsh´a.
In those ancient times, broken pottery sherds were saved and used by scribes like we used paper (before digital ink). Like early handwritten recording of immigrant names entering the U.S., mishearing of foreign tongues and confusing handwriting produced an enormous confusion of names and proliferation of variant spellings.
Likely, an MSH accountant (scribe), recording some maritime trade transaction, Semitized ᴷHatᵊtūsh´a, as he (mis)heard it with his foreign ears, from a native NëꞋsha speaking maritime Kʰa•tū•shaꞋ trade merchant or ship captain. Thus, he would write it on a nearby ostracon—and parts of real ostraca, unlike textbook reports, are often more baffling to discern that scholarly papers convey (see photo). We might expect something like 
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The consensus of later readers, upon reading the ostracon, before it reached our Ta•na״khꞋ, understood it to read BH: mytk (MSH 𐤊𐤕𐤉 ⇒ HH ⇒ Latinized ⇒ Anglicized to "Kittim", MH כתוש, pl. כתושים).
Modern-Era Christian "Indiana Joneses" who couldn't read Hebrew conflated English transliterations of כִּתִּים and חִתִּים creating a non-existent confusion of the two as "Hittites"
)The only evidence of the existence of the ᴷH•ãrꞋri people (apparently an exonym) is a few Hellenized-Semitic Linear A & Linear B cuneiform tablets, found in Boghazkoy, Turkey by Hugo Winckler in 1906 CE, written in their hybrid Semitic-Indo European NëꞋsha language. They reportedly called themselves by the endonym NëꞋshans. Since Muhly's paper, Turkish archaeologists have located NëꞋsha, which is now known as Kültepe ("Ash Hill"; also called Kanesh), in the heart of Turkey near the Syrian border.
 cBCE14Cent 350x235.png "≈BCE14ᵗʰ Cent Kharrian-Khattusha-Kittim (Hittite)") |
 cBCE14Cent 800x531.png "Click to enlarge"){kind=small} ≈BCE 3000–1600 Semitic Anatolians: ᴷH•arꞋri / ᴷH•ūrꞋri / ᵏHa•tᵊ•tūꞋsha / Kit•imꞋ — all starting with a כ (no dã•gæsh´ in BCE Hebrew). These were wrongly transgarbled together with the חִתִּים (beginning with ח,
"Hethites") of Kᵊna•anꞋ as "Hittites") |
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| cBCE 1450 Mediterranean Maritime Shipping & Trade Routes |
The ᴷH•ãrꞋri are perhaps best defined by their international pidgin hybrid Indo-Europeanized Akkadian-Semitic language, developed as needed for contract and accounting records to serve their multilingual international needs of maritime trade. The ᴷH•ãrꞋri maritime traders, shippers, navies and colonizers developed their international pidgin language as needed for clients ranging from earliest Greeks to Egyptians to Semitic Kᵊna•an•imꞋ & Tzi•yᵊd•ōnꞋi•an-TzōrꞋi•ans . Keeping it as simple as possible, they called their international pidgin record-keeping shorthand by the name of their principle city—Në•sha.
 Greek Linear A tablets fm Akrotiri BCE1800-1450 350x165.jpg "cBCE 1800–1450 Akrotiri, Creta (''Minoan'') Greek Linear A tablets") |
 Greek Linear A tablets fm Akrotiri BCE1800-1450 900x430.jpg "Click to enlarge"){kind=small} cBCE 1800–1450 Akrotiri, Kᵊrē•të, early Hellenized-Semitic Linear A tablets |
Multilingual international contract and accounting records in pidgin Në•sha required its own, pidgin Në•sha alphabet recognizable to each of their various international clients around the Mediterranean Basin: Linear A.
Because of their early dominance of the Mediterranean Basin maritime naval, trade and shipping, the ᴷH•ãrꞋri became distinguished by their Në•shan language and Linear A alphabeit from surrounding peoples as well as from each of their international clients around the Mediterranean Basin; from the earliest Hellenists (who would one day derive their, and our, alphabet from this early ᴷH•ãrꞋri alphabeit), distinct from peoples sharing the Akkadian cuneiform alphabet, from the Semitic alephbeit and from Egyptian hieroglyphs.
Muhly also noted that the ᴷH•ãrꞋri are also transgarbled to the "Aryan" Race.
It must further be noted that while the ᴷH•ãrꞋri of Në•shan were eventually (cBCE 1650) eclipsed and absorbed by their neighboring citydom of ᴷHatᵊtūsh´a, that doesn't necessarily imply that the ᴷHatᵊtūsh´a were genetically similar. That remains to be determined by genetic studies.
"The current name Crete is [NOT] first attested in the 15th century BC in Mycenaean Greek texts, written in Linear B, through the words ke-re-te (𐀐𐀩𐀳 128 tablet.] 'Cretan').[10][11] In Ancient Greek, the name Crete (Κρήτη) first appears in Homer's Odyssey.[12] Its etymology is unknown." (along with Egyptian hieroglyph [Keftia]
The earliest beginnings of Aegean-Kᵊrē•të civilization date to the Bronze Age (cBCE 3500). While their ancestry originated in Gonwana, their so-far discovered complex urban civilization manifests from cBCE 2000 and then declined during the LBAC (early Greek Dark Ages, from cBCE 1450) until its collapse cBCE 1100.
qqq13 ᴷH•ãrꞋri moved capital to ᴷHatᵊtūsh´a (& # remaining worksites)
: Kit•imꞋ (ᴷHittite) Multi-Dialect Confederation |
| 𐤑𐤓-Colony Island—Hellenized exonyms: pre-LBAC ΘΥΡΑ, post-LBAC Θήρα. |
Likely, the bottom part of the final (left) 2 Semitic letters of swtk, having become too worn, faded or faint to discern the lower parts of the letters, was misread by a scribe as a Semitic masc. pl. ending (ימ□, □•imꞋ; no final mëm having yet developed), thereby garbled to mytk—MH: כִּתִּים.
Despite the dissimilarity of the MSH (and MH) initial letters (k v h) making garbling of these 2 letters highly unlikely in the original MSH languages, modern-era English-speaking theologians, clueless to the original languages, assumed that the English "Ḫittim" (כִּתִּים) was merely a variant spelling of "Biblical" "Hittim" (חִתִּים)
 ᴷHatᵊtūsh´a Bull Leaper Vase" alt= "cBCE 1650 ᴷH•ãrꞋri-ᴷHatᵊtūsh´a Bull Leaper Vase" /> |
 cBCE 1650 The neck frieze depicts bull leaping—inherited by the Cretan culture from the ᴷH•ãrꞋri-ᴷHatᵊtūsh´a (Kit•imꞋ). |
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cBCE 1525 Knossos, Kᵊrē•të ᴷHa•tᵊ•tūꞋsha ("Minoan") Bull-Leaper fresco; (photo: Jebulon  ) |
Though discolored by fire, the cBCE 1650 Hüseyindede Tepe ᴷH•ãrꞋri-ᴷHatᵊtūsh´a wine urn is more than a century earlier & far superior to the earliest Cretan pottery below.
Necessarily, Cretan pottery imitated the earlier, and superior, ᴷH•ãrꞋri-ᴷHatᵊtūsh´a (Kit•imꞋ) pottery, not the reverse!
Necessarily, the Cretan culture of bull-leaping was inherited from the ᴷH•ãrꞋri-ᴷHatᵊtūsh´a (Kit•imꞋ) culture, not the reverse!
Necessarily, Crete was colonized by the the earlier, and superior, ᴷH•ãrꞋri-ᴷHatᵊtūsh´a (Kit•imꞋ), not the reverse!
Necessarily, the "mysterious" people with the superior culture were neither extra-terrestrial aliens nor were they a fictitious "Minoan" people named when I was a child (the 1940s CE) by British arts-archaeologist Arthur Evans! Nor does "Hittite" properly define them. These were the ᴷH•ãrꞋri-ᴷHatᵊtūsh´a (Kit•imꞋ) of Anatolia (modern western & central Turkey)!
It pains me deeply that, for some, it's necessary to state that the super-culture of terrestrial & naval architectures of the ancient Middle-East were of this world—their evolutionary heritage traced back all the way from near the heart, A•dãm•ãhꞋ of Gondwanaland; i.e. modern Israel). If there is intelligent (not the same as self-aware sapience) life in the universe (many of of us aren't even close), a far-advanced civilization would be too intelligent to waste their life, much less generations of lives (even near the speed of light limit for matter), cramped in a spacecraft, when all such an advanced civilization would have to do is communicate with us by Instant Cross-Universe Entanglement (ICUE, Einstein's "spooky at a distance"). Using instant communications, they could simply teach us how to construct an avatar for them to remotely inhabit by ICUE-technology; i.e. Remote-VR. So if you must believe aliens visited us, having evolved from the same "Nᵊti•yãhꞋ ha-Gᵊdōl•ãhꞋ", i.e. beginning the same moment we did, having evolved so much faster than us, yet would find us at all interesting….
Of course, if the 2-4mm cerebral cortex outer, gray matter layer (or other part) of physical brains serves as an entanglement-technology antenna, that would have significance in understanding the "Nᵊti•yãhꞋ ha-Gᵊdōl•ãhꞋ" , greatly enlightening us to the meaning and purpose of the universe, as well as our connection to—and inexorable disconnection from—it. Are we really physical? Or merely locked from conception into inhabiting our own Remote-VR avatar—which will be discarded at death, very much like pulling the plug? Where will we then find ourselves, and have we trained ourselves to be prepared for and adapted to non-physical cognition?
qqq12 KhattushaPottery (& # remaining worksites)
Subsequent ages loosely follow and adapt earlier cultures—and the Greek drinking vessels of their symposia bear striking resemblance and parallels to the ᴷH•ãrꞋri-ᴷHatᵊtūsh´a. Ergo, the far earlier parallel drinking vessels of the earlier ᴷH•ãrꞋri-ᴷHatᵊtūsh´a, with their respective ᴷH•ãrꞋri-ᴷHatᵊtūsh´a (mostly unknown as of this writing) names, are likely reflected in what we know from the much later Greek !symposia. [Idea for seider: 4-20:1, according to taste, iced-wineade] "Water was mixed with wine in a large central [𒁉𒁇𒌋 BIBRU (krater)] to a strength determined by the symposiarch (master of ceremonies). The mixture, usually three or four parts water to one part wine, was served by slave boys who filled [oinochoe, pitchers] from the [𒁉𒁇𒌋 BIBRU] and poured the drink into each participant’s cup [kylix]"
"Several different vessels for wine were produced in bronze, which may have been reserved for sumptuous drinking parties, called symposia [συμπόσιον (pl. συμπόσια), a gathering or party of "fellow-drinkers"]. Kraters, used for mixing wine and water, could be elaborately decorated. Psykters, a fairly unusual shape with a full, bulbous body above a tall, narrow foot, held wine and were floated in kraters filled with cold water to keep the wine cool (60.11.3a,b). Situlai, wine buckets [≈20cm h x 5 cm diam], were particularly popular in the fourth century B.C. and later. Oinochoai [wine-pourer], jugs used for pouring, were produced in a variety of shapes and sizes, many in bronze (1997.158). Drinking cups [kylix] also appear in several different shapes (07.286.97). A set of Late Classical bronze drinking vessels, including a situla, oinochoe, and cups, along with bowls, a ladle, a strainer, and other utensils, was found in Tomb II of the Royal Tombs at Vergina, in Macedonia."
qqq11 SymposKrater para (& # remaining worksites)
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 cBCE1600 Hüseyindede Tepe ᴷH•ãrꞋri-ᴷHatᵊtūsh´a wine-mixing urn, later adapted by Greeks to the krater 𒁉𒁇𒌋 (later Greek κρᾱτήρ) ??? Placed near center of room, used by wine stewards to fill participants' κύλιξ (kūlꞋix; wine cup—see link). Bibru 𒁉𒁇𒌋 equates? to Greek krater https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krater (Form and function) "At a Greek symposium, kraters were placed in the center of the room. They were quite large, so they were not easily portable when filled. Thus, the wine-water mixture would be withdrawn from the krater with other vessels, such as a kyathos (pl.: kyathoi), an amphora (pl.: amphorai),[1] or a kylix (pl.: kylikes).[1]" & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kylix --> relief, wedding musicians & dancers (İnandık Turkey; clay mixed with gold mica, 86cm (2' 10") h x 50cm (1' 8") diam) |
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 cBCE 1500 ᴷHa•tᵊ•tūꞋsha ("Minoan"), Kᵊrē•të; clay octopus flask (ArchMusHerakleion) |
Most pottery was monochrome red or black, with incised and white-painted decoration sometimes occurring in the first and second phases. Fluting and ribbing resembled the decoration of metal vessels and was especially characteristic of the southwest. In central and southern areas painted wares reappeared in the second phase, and in the third phase a purple-on-orange ware with strongly geometric designs appeared in the Kültepe region. A related polychrome ware appeared simultaneously in the Elazığ and Malatya regions. The most important technical innovation in ceramics was the introduction of the potter’s wheel, which in most areas occurred about the beginning of the third phase. [https://www.britannica.com/place/Anatolia/Early-Bronze-Age 1]
The transition to the third phase of the Early Bronze Age, possibly about 2450 bce, brought with it the general appearance in western Anatolia of wheel-made plates and two-handled drinking vessels. These, together with other western styles in pottery and architecture, spread also to central and southern areas. Surveys have suggested that many sites were destroyed at the end of the second phase. Some scholars therefore have argued that speakers of an Indo-European language entered Anatolia at that time from the northwest. The language, in this view, would have been ancestral to Hittite and Luwian. Indo-European is first attested in Anatolia in names occurring in Middle Bronze Age tablets from Kültepe, but the date, route, and even the reality of an Indo-European invasion or infiltration are all controversial. Furthermore, it is likely that the greater universality of styles occurring in the third phase can be attributed simply to increased contact through trade and improved transport. The beginnings of trade with Assyria are indicated by the pottery and small objects of Kültepe in the third phase; this trade was to develop strongly in the Middle Bronze Age. [https://www.britannica.com/place/Anatolia/Early-Bronze-Age 2]
Eventually, The Në•sha language was retained by their successors, the ᴷHatᵊtūsh´a, after Në•sha city was eclipsed by ᴷHatᵊtūsh´a City. Their shared language and Linear A alphabet, however, retained its original name, Në•sha. indigenously developed in the 𒌷 𒉌𒅆𒇷 𒉌𒅆𒇷 NëꞋsha. Similarities between Nëshili and Semitic-Aramaic suggest to me that it was a hybridization when Semitic and Indo-European mingled.
qqq09 Kharri/Khurri (& # remaining worksites)
The earliest known NëꞋshan-speakers, the ᴷh•ãrꞋri, appear to have been absorbed into their NëꞋshan-speaking cousins around them: the 𒄩𒀜𒌅𒊭 (ᴷHatᵊtūsh´a.
While their NëꞋsha language (was probably shared and) persisted after them, however, the people themselves vanished. Most likely, they became the paradigm later followed by the Tzi•yᵊd•ōnꞋi•ans & TzūrꞋi•ans, and even later by the Kᵊna•an•imꞋ & Yi•sᵊr•ã•eil•imꞋ—the indigenous latter conquered the previous indigenous people and then absorbed the survivors into their own people, thereby becoming the sole, incorporated, indigenous people.
Thus, the ᴷH•ãrꞋri-NëꞋsha vanished from the historical record, they left their NëꞋsha language to their successors: the ᴷHatᵊtūsh´a ("Hattians"—Kitim).
This raises the question: what is meant by the name “Hatti-Land,” where does it come from? Fortunately, we can now answer that question. Prior to the arrival of the Hittites the area of central Anatolia was controlled by a non-Indo-European group who called their language Hattic, their land the Hatti-Land, and their capital city Hattush. … All that we can say is that they greatly influenced the later Hittite inhabitants of the area, who borrowed much from them, including the name of the land and of their capital city and who, to our great good fortunate, preserved Hattic texts in their own archives. By the time of the Old Assyrian merchant colony, or karum, at Boghazkoy, we find that the site is already known as Hattush, for the Old Assyrian tablets found there refer to the karum Hattush. Sometime around c. 1650 B.C. the Hittites took over the site. They took the name Hattush and added a Hittite nominative ending, making it Hattushas. The Hittite king, whose native name was Labarnash, took the throne name Hattushili, “the one of Hattusha.”
https://www.penn.museum/sites/expedition/the-hittites-and-the-aegean-world/
to 𒄩𒀜𒌅𒊭(Kã•at•tūꞋsh). This is the endonym of the people who merged with a number of neighboring dialects, later misidentified through multi-language transgarblation to Kit•ūshꞋim, Kit•imꞋ (in Ta•na״khꞋ) and later confused by Christian "Indiana Jones" style art-archaeologists with Khit•imꞋ (sons of Kheit—resulting in the English misidentification: "Hittites". Only in modern times, the 1940s CE, a British arts-archaeologist Arthur Evans, unable to trace back this never-before resolved etymology, concocted a new exonym for the ᴷHatᵊtūsh´a—the entirely fictional, never-existed, "Minoans"!,(Evans invented the name "Minoans" from a mythical king "Minos" mentioned at the place of his excavations, in Knossos, Crete.)
So whenever you read "Hittite" or "Minoan" immediately recall that these are both mistaken or entirely fictional names; neither "Hittites" nor "Minoans" have ever existed. They were the ᴷHa•tᵊ•tūꞋsha. Semitic grammar, very likely paralleling the ᴷHa•tᵊ•tūꞋsha cuneiform, generally hardens an initial כ (ᴷH) to כּ (the "K" sound), not distinguished in written form until 4½ millennia later. Thus, the indigenous people of Anatolia were the ᴷHatᵊtūsh´a; in MH, כּתים (Kit•imꞋ)!
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"The first thing to realize about the Hittites is that they are not Hittites. The sad fact is that we are stuck with an incorrect terminology, but it is too late to do anything about it now. This unfortunate situation came about as a result of several deductions made by earlier scholars which, though entirely reasonable at the time, have proved to be false. The Bronze Age civilization of Central Anatolia (or Turkey), which we today call Hittite, completely disappeared sometime around 1200 B.C. We still do not know exactly what happened, though there is no lack of modern theories, but that it was destroyed, of that there can be no doubt."
"Because we continually see things from the Greek point of view, we tend to assume that Greece was always the center of events and that everyone else knew of and was concerned with Greek affairs. Yet, seen in proper historical perspective, Greece was, in all periods prior to the conquests of Alexander the Great, a remote and peripheral area, on the very fringes of the civilized world,… "
"what about that Mycenaean pottery at Miletus and Ephesus, sites probably actually mentioned in Hittite texts as Millawanda and Apasas? Now we read of masses of Mycenaean pottery at Miletus and even of Mycenaean brick structures and a Mycenaean brick factory, to say nothing of a Mycenaean fortification wall. "
The Hittites had no interest in Mycenaean Greece. Why should they have concerned themselves with a primitive, rather barbaric and mostly illiterate land, far beyond a sea they would never have dreamed of crossing? Mycenaean pottery has indeed been found on the Ionian and Carian coasts, but we must be very careful in assessing the significance of what are still but a few chance finds, apart from Miletus and now lasos. Much work remains to be done, if only it were possible to do it. The Hittites themselves had very little interest in the west coast. They were not a sea power and seem to have had little or no concern with Aegean or Mediterranean trade. Hittite interests looked to the east and to the south, to Syria and the kingdom of Mitanni, to Assyria, Babylonia and Egypt. Here was to be found the real center of the civilized world in the second millennium B.C. The Mycenaeans were about as much a part of this as England was a part of the world of Pericles. We often tend to view the transmission of ideas as a movement from west to east but, in broad historical terms the actual movement of civilization has been, for all periods prior to the Renaissance, a movement from east to west (ex Oriente lux)."
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The ᴷHa•tᵊ•tūꞋsha civilization included a Bronze Age Aegean colony on the island of Kᵊrē•të and many other Aegean Islands, whose earliest beginnings date to c. 3500 BC, with the complex urban civilization beginning around 2000 BC, and then declining about the time of the Tzūr eruption (cBCE ) initiating the LBAC , until that ended around cBCE 850. The ᴷHa•tᵊ•tūꞋsha represent the first advanced civilization in Europe, leaving behind a number of massive building complexes, sophisticated art, and writing systems. Its economy benefited from a network of trade around much of the Mediterranean.
cBCE 1500-1450 Kit•imꞋ octopus marine vase, New-Palace period (BCE 1500-1450) Kᵊrē•të clay askos with 'Marine Style' decoration.
The Kit•imꞋ were discovered in early 1940s (CE) excavations at Knossos, Kᵊrē•të by British art-explorer (arts degreed archaeologist) Arthur Evans. Unable to identify what people they were, he concocted their name after one of their mythical god-kings: Minos, hence "Minoans", a mythical people named after a mythical god. No "Minoan" people ever existed in the ancient Mediterranean world. So the real quest has been to identify the people of ancient Knossos, Kᵊrē•të art.
The civilization was rediscovered at the beginning of the 20th century through the work of British archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans. The name "Minoan" derives from the mythical King Minos and was coined by Evans, who identified the site at Knossos with the labyrinth of the Minotaur. The [ᴷHa•tᵊ•tūꞋsha ("Minoan")] civilization has been described as the earliest of its kind in Europe,[2] and historian Will Durant called the [ᴷHa•tᵊ•tūꞋsha ("Minoan")] "the first link in the European chain".[3] Unfortunately, that is impossible! The ᴷHa•tᵊ•tūꞋsha were Anatolians—from Gondwanaland, not EurAsia!
This ancient [ᴷHa•tᵊ•tūꞋsha] people is distinguished by maritime trade, language and art: distinctive painting style (reflecting an advanced culture & pottery), advanced building construction and a very early [NëꞋsha cuneiform] writing system.
"Ruled from vast palaces, [the ᴷHa•tᵊ•tūꞋsha] people were accomplished artists and maritime traders, but their civilization fell into decline after a devastating volcanic eruption on the nearby island of [Tzūr (Thera, (modern-day Santorini)]."
"Sayce and other scholars also noted that Judah and the Hittites were never enemies in the Hebrew texts; in the Book of Kings, they supplied the Israelites with cedar, chariots, and horses, and in the Book of Genesis were friends and allies to Abraham. Uriah the Hittite was a captain in King David's army and counted as one of his "mighty men" in 1 Chronicles 11." (wiki Hittites)
Hellenized-Semitic Linear A
Minoans—concocted from Greek mythology by British art-explorer "archaeologist" Arthur Evans in the 1940s, "Minoan" is an eponym of a mythical King Minos" because he couldn't identify the people historically. Now they are identified: ᴷHa•tᵊ•tūꞋsha-Kit•imꞋ! So there is no further excuse to continue promulgating a silly myth instead of evidence-based history.
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DNA 70.9–76.7% Anatolian Neolithic Farmers (ANF)
file:///C:/Yirmeyahu/Netzarim/Library/Minoan%20civilization%20-%20Wikipedia.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoan_civilization
"The [Hittite] material culture of Late Bronze I shows affinities with the KʰūrꞋri world to the east, such as Nuzi Ware (Woolley, 1955, Yener et al., 2019), as well as strong contacts with other, more far-flung regions, such as Cyprus (Woolley, 1955, Yener et al., 2019). … from a bi-lingual Hittite-Hurrian text called Song of Release, it seems that the site was destroyed by a coalition of Hittites and Hurrians led by an otherwise unknown personage called Pizikarra of Nineveh (Matthiae, 2009a)."
Sayce and other scholars also noted that Judah and the Hittites were never enemies in the Hebrew texts; in the Book of Kings, they supplied the Israelites with cedar, chariots, and horses, and in the Book of Genesis were friends and allies to Abraham. Uriah the Hittite was a captain in King David's army and counted as one of his "mighty men" in 1 Chronicles 11. (Wiki Hittites#History)
The script on a monument at Boğazkale by a "People of Hattusas" discovered by William Wright in 1884 was found to match peculiar hieroglyphic scripts from Aleppo and Hama in Northern Syria. In 1887, excavations at Amarna in Egypt uncovered the diplomatic correspondence of Pharaoh Amenhotep III and his son, Akhenaten. Two of the letters from a "kingdom of Kheta"—apparently located in the same general region as the Mesopotamian references to "land of Hatti"—were written in standard Akkadian cuneiform, but in an unknown language; although scholars could interpret its sounds, no one could understand it. Shortly after this, Sayce proposed that Hatti or Khatti in Anatolia was identical with the "kingdom of Kheta" mentioned in these Egyptian texts, as well as with the biblical Hittites. Others, such as Max Müller, agreed that Khatti was probably Kheta, but proposed connecting it with Biblical Kittim rather than with the Biblical Hittites. Sayce's identification came to be widely accepted over the course of the early 20th century; and the name "Hittite" has become attached to the civilization uncovered at Boğazköy.[16]
Hattusa ramp (photo)
During sporadic excavations at Boğazköy (Hattusa) that began in 1906, the archaeologist Hugo Winckler found a royal archive with 10,000 tablets, inscribed in cuneiform Akkadian and the same unknown language as the Egyptian letters from Kheta—thus confirming the identity of the two names. He also proved that the ruins at Boğazköy were the remains of the capital of an empire that, at one point, controlled northern Syria.[17] Wiki
(photo above) Ceremonial vessels in the shape of sacred bulls, called Hurri (Day) and Seri (Night) found in Hattusa, Hittite Old Kingdom (16th century BC) Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, Ankara Wiki Hittites#History (caption to photo: 2 ceremonial bulls)
To the southeast of the Hittites lay the Hurrian empire of Mitanni. At its peak, during the reign of Muršili II, the Hittite empire stretched from Arzawa in the west to Mitanni in the east, many of the Kaskian territories to the north including Hayasa-Azzi in the far north-east, and on south into Canaan approximately as far as the southern border of Lebanon, incorporating all of these territories within its domain Wiki (citation needed, Wiki)
new genetic and archaeological research confirm that Proto-Anatolian speakers arrived to this region in mid-5th millennium BC.… Petra Goedegebuure has shown that the Hittite language has borrowed many words related to agriculture from cultures on their eastern borders,[37] (Wiki Hittites#Origins)
The dominant indigenous inhabitants in central Anatolia were Hurrians and Hattians who spoke non-Indo-European languages. … There were also Assyrian colonies in the region during the Old Assyrian Empire (2025–1750 BC); it was from the Assyrian speakers of Upper Mesopotamia that the Hittites adopted the cuneiform script. … wiki/Hittites#Origins
qqq04 Kritim insert map? (with # worksites remaining below)
Segoe UI Historic;Akkadian;Noto Sans Cuneiform;Noto Sans Sumero-Akkadian Cuneiform fonts 𒄷𒌨𒊑 (wiki/Hurrians); (kh•ūr•ri, kh•tes•ri) wiki/Hurrians [tes: Sumerian noun after divine name, wiki/𒌨]; Hurrians too far east—area of Tiyᵊdonia-Tzūria in MBA Middle Bronze Age cBCE 2254–1600; may have colonized Crete; not western Anatolia; 𒄷𒌨𒊑 (ᴷhū•ūr•ri); חורים [xferd to Tzidonians-Tzurians.odt]; TARSUS, named by the Hittites (wiki/Tarsus,_Mersin) in Hittite cuneiform 𒋫𒅈𒊭 [ta / itti • ri / ar • sha] (wiki/Tarsus,_Mersin); Tarshish in Hellenized-Semitic Linear B 𐤕𐤓𐤔𐤔 (wiki/Tarshish)
Kritim Kʳitim Greek people Semitic name conundrum ("Out of Adamah", no different than Ionians, et al.) כת (Klein 289; Egyptian (hieroglyph kti (Kiti) 228x75.png), כִּתִּיִּים כִּתִּים (son of יָוָן Yã•uãn son of יָפֶת Yãphët)=Early identified with Yã•uãn (Ἴωνες Ionian Greek) Aegaean maritime people of Kaphtor, who colonized: "Josephus (Ant. 1:128) identified Kittim with Kition, or Kitti, a Phoenician city on the island of *Cyprus near present-day Larnaca, an identification accepted by most scholars." TO 260: Hebrew כרת (taw, kaph) or (yod, taq, kaph)
"Sea Peoples" — "No ancient inscription names the coalition as "Sea Peoples" - this is a modern-day designation first coined by the French Egyptologist Gaston Maspero in c. 1881 CE. Maspero came up with the term because the ancient reports claim that these tribes came "from the sea" or from "the islands" but they never say which sea or which islands and so the Sea Peoples' origin remains unknown." ) Levantine Culture (ELC)
The quest to learn the identities and cultures of the Philistines (Palestinians), Minoans, Phoenicians and "Sea Peoples" who emerged from the "Black Box" of the LBAC has engaged art-trained sociologists (pseudo-archaeologists) since the late 19th century of the Modern Era.
Human habitation of  Cyprus copper 053x19.png "Kuprians (Cyprians=Cypriots)"){kind=small}
began during the Levantine Culture
Founders: The  Cyprus copper 101x36.png "Kuprians (Cyprians=Cypriots)"){kind=small}
Predate The Egyptian CivilizationPre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB, cBCE 8800–6500)—the next stage following the initial peopling of Levantine and Upper Mesopotamian region of the Fertile Crescent (PPNA, cBCE 10,000–8,000).
PPNA is characterized by tiny circular mud-brick dwellings, the cultivation of crops, the hunting of wild game, and unique burial customs in which bodies were buried below the floors of dwellings.
Ca. B.C.E. 627 — Yi•rᵊmᵊyãhꞋu 2.10 refers to the כִּתִּים who remain steadfast to their (Hellenist) idols Ca. B.C.E. 583 — Yᵊkhë•zᵊq•eilꞋ 27.6 (probably walnut) ivory inlay from the (Hellenist) Aegean isles of כִּתִּים Ca. B.C.E. 519, as the — Zᵊkhar•yãhꞋ Bën-Bë•rëkh•yãhꞋ Bën-Id•oꞋ ha-Nã•viꞋ prophesied the ultimate vanquishment of (Hellenist) יָוָן (9.13) following the appearance of the Mã•shiꞋakh (9.9), interpreted to refer initially to Hellenist Bã•vëlꞋ, then reinterpreted to refer to Hellenist Syria (namely Antiochus 4th Epiphanes who enabled the Hellenization of the Judean priesthood and "Temple"). Later, כִּתִּים was reinterpreted to refer to Hellenist Rome. Today, כִּתִּים is associated with the Hellenist Roman (Catholic = Christian) democracy spawned by Rome. Ca. B.C.E. 275 — Dãn•iy•eilꞋ specifies the mëlꞋëkh יָוָן (8.21-22 and 11.2) and LXX translates (the ships of the Aegean islands of the Hellenist) כִּתִּים (Dãn•iy•eilꞋ 11.30) as (Hellenist) ῥωμαῖοι. Ca. B.C.E. 50 — In the War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness from the Dead Sea Scrolls, the (Hellenist) כִּתִּים are referred to as being "of Asshur" (Hellenist Assyria), namely Antiochus 4th Epiphanes, who, in B.C.E. 175, empowered the Hellenization of the Judean priesthood and "Temple," thereby targeting the current Hellenists: the Hellenist pseudo-Tzᵊdoq•imꞋ apostates who had expelled the Ōs•inꞋ (authors of the DSS) and Hellenized the "Temple"! Ca. 100 C.E. — Josephus (1.6.1) identifies כִּתִּים as Hellenist (whether Greek or western Turkey) Cyprus (37-100 C.E.), (MH: In ancient times, however, the internationally famous ancient seafaring islanders who inhabited KaphᵊtōrꞋ weren't known as "Caphtorians"—but rather, hectomillennia before Hellenism's "Crete", or the first Greek—these seafaring islanders were known throughout the Mediterranean Basin as the Kit•imꞋ! 𐤊𐤕 (m.s.n.) 𐤊𐤕𐤉 It's illogical that Anatolians (southern coast of modern west Turkey) who colonized Crete hadn't first established a colony on the much closer island of Cyprus. Ἰώσηπος identifies the Cyprian southeast coastal town of Κίτιον with the Kit•imꞋ, used by the Hebrews to designate all of Cyprus and even lands further west. Since the earliest human presence in KaphᵊtōrꞋ dates to the Middle to Upper Pleistocene (no later than 130 Ka Strasser, et al. assessed evidence on KaphᵊtōrꞋ demonstrating "that two separate human groups left traces of their existence in this region, one in the Middle to Upper Pleistocene (ca. 130,000 b.p. or earlier), and the other in the late Pleistocene-early Holocene (ca. 11,000-9000 b.p.)" (ibid.). The only seafaring people associated with the earliest of these two dates, a priori, could only have been the Kit•imꞋ, associated with, i.e. tying together, KaphᵊtōrꞋ, qqq03 LBAC0213 (with # worksites remaining below)
Misleading 19-20th Century CE, Art-Based, Non-Scientific Nomenclatures
LBAC
Shrouds Pūlossian Accession To Mediterranean Maritime Prominence qqq02 Kaphtor (with # worksites remaining below)
כַּפְתּׂר
, also כַּפְתּוֹר )—colonized by the seafaring people Kit•imꞋ, ≈130 Ka later famed for their textile dye the color of their national emblem Phoenix-bird figurehead identifying their ships (later Greek exonym Phoenicians) 1st wave of colonists [ca. 130,000 b.p. or earlier; Strasser et al 186, Crete Stone Age Seafaring] Mediterranean island known today as Crete. ) predates human presence in southern Europe (Greece and the Aegaean) cBCE 40,000, a priori, KaphᵊtōrꞋ was not initially settled by Greece or other Europeans. The conclusion of Strasser, et al., that the island of KaphᵊtōrꞋ (later Crete), therefore, originally settled by African hominins (ibid.) was based on their assumption that mankind came "Out of Africa"—which has since been shown to be erroneous (see subsequent research proving that mankind came, far earlier, out of A•dãm•ãhꞋ). Ergo, the obvious earliest seafarers "Out of A•dãm•ãhꞋ" were the Semitic Phoenicians—hence KaphᵊtōrꞋ. and
by the Phoenicians—well-documented Semites, the earliest to record the name of the island: KaphᵊtōrꞋ.
Keftia Egyptian hieroglyph (Crete)
Corroborating the island name of KaphᵊtōrꞋ, one of the earliest written occurrences of the island name appears in Mi•tzᵊr•ayꞋim hieroglyphs as Keftia—a transgarblation (i.e. not native to the ancient Egyptian language) of KaphᵊtōrꞋ.
KaphᵊtōrꞋ was a very early center of the Western Mediterranean, the ancient Ægæn-Cycladic Islands and Mediterranean maritime trade via the central Aegaean distribution hub-island of Thæra.
, written in Mycenaean Linear-B Greek during the time of Shᵊmū•ælꞋ Bën Ëlᵊqãn•ãhꞋ ha-Lei•wiꞋ, ha-Nã•zirꞋ, ha-Nã•viꞋ during the Greek Dark Ages (Late Bronze Age Collapse) was associated with the PūlꞋos colony—which was on the northern coast of Sin•aiꞋ abutting the Egyptian border.
"Humans have inhabited the island since at least 130,000 years ago, during the Paleolithic age. Crete was the centre of Europe's first advanced civilization, the [Kitim] Minoans, from 2700 to 1420 BC. The [Kitim] Minoan civilization was overrun by the Mycenaean civilization from mainland Greece." (Crete) colonized by Kitim (Phoenicians) 1st wave of colonists [ca. 130,000 b.p. or earlier; Strasser et al 186, Library/Crete Stone Age Seafaring in Med Strasser 40835484 20220815.pdf]
Greek Kríti Crete Etymology: NOT: "The current name Crete is first attested in the 15th century BC in Mycenaean Greek texts, written in Linear B, through the words ke-re-te (𐀐𐀩𐀳, *Ke•rē•te (Krit); later Greek: Κρῆτες [krɛː.tes], plural of Κρής [krɛːs])[8] and ke-re-si-jo (𐀐𐀩𐀯𐀍, *Ke•rē•si•yo; later Greek: Κρήσιος [krέːsios],[9] 'Cretan').[10][11] In Ancient Greek, the name Crete (Κρήτη) first appears in Homer's Odyssey.[12] Its etymology is unknown." (along with Egyptian hieroglyph [Keftia]
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Notwithstanding the weak criticism of ???, כַּפְתּׂר (MH:, also כַּפְתּוֹר)—colonized by the seafaring people Kit•imꞋ, ≈130 Ka later 1st wave of colonists [ca. 130,000 b.p. or earlier; Mediterranean island known today as Crete.
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In ancient times, however, the internationally famous ancient seafaring islanders who inhabited KaphᵊtōrꞋ weren't known as "Caphtorians"—but rather, hectomillennia before Hellenism's "Crete", or the first Greek—these seafaring islanders were known throughout the Mediterranean Basin as the Kit•imꞋ! 𐤊𐤕 (m.s.n.) 𐤊𐤕𐤉
It's illogical that Anatolians (southern coast of modern west Turkey) who colonized Crete hadn't first established a colony on the much closer island of Cyprus. Ἰώσηπος identifies the Cyprian southeast coastal town of Κίτιον with the Kit•imꞋ, used by the Hebrews to designate all of Cyprus and even lands further west.
Since the earliest human presence in KaphᵊtōrꞋ dates to the Middle to Upper Pleistocene (no later than 130 Ka ) predates human presence in southern Europe (Greece and the Aegaean) cBCE 40,000, a priori, KaphᵊtōrꞋ was not initially settled by Greece or other Europeans. The conclusion of Strasser, et al., that the island of KaphᵊtōrꞋ (later Crete), therefore, originally settled by African hominins (ibid.) was based on their assumption that mankind came "Out of Africa"—which has since been shown to be erroneous (see subsequent research proving that mankind came, far earlier, out of A•dãm•ãhꞋ). Ergo, the obvious earliest seafarers "Out of A•dãm•ãhꞋ" were the Semitic Phoenicians—hence KaphᵊtōrꞋ.
Strasser, et al. assessed evidence on KaphᵊtōrꞋ demonstrating "that two separate human groups left traces of their existence in this region, one in the Middle to Upper Pleistocene (ca. 130,000 b.p. or earlier), and the other in the late Pleistocene-early Holocene (ca. 11,000-9000 b.p.)" (ibid.). The only seafaring people associated with the earliest of these two dates, a priori, could only have been the Kit•imꞋ, associated with, i.e. tying together, KaphᵊtōrꞋ, and
by the Phoenicians—well-documented Semites, the earliest to record the name of the island: KaphᵊtōrꞋ.
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Corroborating the island name of KaphᵊtōrꞋ, one of the earliest written occurrences of the island name appears in Mi•tzᵊr•ayꞋim hieroglyphs as Keftia—a transgarblation (i.e. not native to the ancient Egyptian language) of KaphᵊtōrꞋ.
KaphᵊtōrꞋ was a very early center of the Western Mediterranean, the ancient Ægæn-Cycladic Islands and Mediterranean maritime trade via the central Aegaean distribution hub-island of Thæra.
, written in Mycenaean Linear-B Greek during the time of Shᵊmū•ælꞋ Bën Ëlᵊqãn•ãhꞋ ha-Lei•wiꞋ, ha-Nã•zirꞋ, ha-Nã•viꞋ during the Greek Dark Ages (Late Bronze Age Collapse) was associated with the PūlꞋos colony—which was on the northern coast of Sin•aiꞋ abutting the Egyptian border.
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| Yirmeyahu Ben-David. Khattusha, The Biblical Kittim (2024.09.21). Netzarim Jews Worldwide (Ra'anana, Israel). https://www.netzarim.co.il/Shared/Glossary/Kitim.htm (Retrieved: Month Da, 20##). |
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