Salt Lake Telegram | 1908-01-27 | Page 10 | A Hittite Record.

A HITTITE RECORD In the heart of ancient Cappadocia Asia Minor l near the town of thoro there have been unearthed un un- un- un eart bearing hearing inscriptions a vast number mini num her ber of clay tablets elating dating from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries centuries' before Christ It is believed they constitute the tho library of tho the Hittite 1 kings and the keenest interest i is manifested among oriental scholars schol schol- ars to have havo them translated It Itt is believed that they will add acid vastly to the knowledge of their time p possibly add a page to a history that is now most obscure An Another thing which increases interest in them themis is that the are treated in the Old Testament as a half outlawed race out of which no good could ever bo be hoped for The old Hebrew prejudices were very strong possibly they were not altogether fair I in their estimates V Would it not be queer if these Ulese I clay tablets had been waiting four and thirty centuries cen cen- tm-i tm his tm-his s to come forth now to vindicate a race that went vent back to the dust so long ago that it has been but a few fe years since the spot on which they dwelt has been found 7 1 These tablets were found in the ruins of what must have been an immense temple Dr in charge of tho excavations believes he has likewise found the capital city of the monarch monarchy a ato to town n built in terraces on the slope of a mountain and walled and with numerous towers and bastions To ro all s sides des of the temple where the tablets were found paved streets converge The rhe tablets arc are believed be he- to contain the history of the Hittite kings and their correspondence with their contemporary kings of Egypt and Assyria