The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1911-07-20

modern HONS. There the young
Rameses II. attacked him. and fought
the battle tmmortalissd by the en-.
craving Of . court poets enoomiastio
narrative on . wall at Karnak. Ram.
esss seems TO have prevailed 20 far
that hs stopped any further ADVANCE
OF the HAITI towards his own boEders:
but whom he made . treaty Of peace
and dalliance with Autallu's successor.
Hattusil II. Whom he called Knit.
asar). its terms imply recognition Of
the other party's power - equal to
bis own. Part of Hattusils corrs-
spondence has come to light at Bog.
has-Keui. 1t includes Q precis Of the
provisions Of this very treaty, and
documents which show hat the HAITI
king was still ovsriord I'm Mssopo.
tamia and abls 70 deal on . footing Of
secure Independence with Babylon.
These records briag the history to
about 1850 b. C. We know something
of two more k1ngs of Boghas-Ksui,
making eight IN all. The last
reisnsd on the eve Of that great re-
vival on the Tisris. which would ul-
timately bring Assyria down to the
Meditsrransan, and In his time the
HAITI empire was evidently dscaying:
for there were kinss In Syria. whore
the monarch ON Boghas-Keui had
once ruled alone. To this Syrian
part Of the empire We know what
happened At the last. Il was broken
up by the power of Nineveh In the
eighth century B. C. But how the
empire dwindled and came to an end
In Asia Minor We can only guess.
Assyrian pressure was felt even there,
for At least one Ninevits king raided
far across Taurus. From the oppo-
site side. the north. wild people. the
Musk, swept through the peninsula
and finally settled down in Phrygia,
probably freeing 1t. with all to west
ward, from the Cappadocian rule, and
certainly establishing . monarchy
whose holders, under the names Cor.
dias and Midas. loom large in early
Greek legend. The Greeks. finding
the coasts undsfsndsd which the Gre
tans Of Minos bod not bssn able to
conquer. came over and oolonised
them. Lydia rose last on the ruins of
Phygia, and by this time the power
Of Bobhaz-Keui was only . name. To
Judge from the remains Of the city
SO far uncovered. it had enjoyed 4 Sec
ond spring at some period. perhaps
about 1000 B. c.; but this must have
been short. Greek literature makes
only one doubtful allusion to 1t in tho
sixth century, and none at all to its
former greatness. Yet, all forgotten
as 1t was by the people In whose
hands in chief the transmission OF
early history was to lie. the Haiti en-
pire had not existed in vain even for
the development Of that same people.
Occupying for several centuries tho
most vital part Of West Asia. through
which all the land routes between
east and west must pass, the HAITI
had been the main agents through
whom the civilizing influences Of the
east had passed. Their art awakened
art in Phrygia and Lydia. and left its
mark on the first Greek handiwork in
Ionia. From their Photographic sys-
tenn Of writing were derived many Al
phabetic characters still used in Hell
lenised parts Of South and West Asia
Minor. in classical times. Their re-
ligion was the type religion Of Asia
Minor and ultimately responsible for
those so-called "Anatolian" features
which spread to Greece and through
Greece to Rome and the west. I'm.
compromprehended traditions and
memories of their society inspired
several Greek stories, notably that of
the Amazons. one Of whom-perhaps
the divine queen Of them all-is carved
on a gate post at Boghaz-Keui itself.
As in these latter years Crete has
shown us much foundation in fact
there was for some of the strangest
myths Of Hellas. so, in less degree.
has Boghaz-Keui. 1t has much more
yet to tell us, for not its tenth part
has been excavated: and nothing ID
to be desired more earnestly than that
its exploration should be resumed.