The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1911-07-21

ished himself at Kadesh, near the
modern HONS. There the young
Rameses II. attacked him. and fought
the battle immortalized by the en-.
craving of a court poets encomiastie
narrative on a wall at Karnak. Ram.
eses seems to have prevailed 80 far
that he stopped any further advance
OF the Haiti towards his own borders;
but when he made a treaty of peace
n dalhance with Mutallu's successor.
Hattusil II. (whorl he called Knit.
asar), its terms imply recognition Of
the other party's power as equal to
his own. Part of Hattusil's CORE
~spondence has come to light at Bog.
haz-Keui. 1t includes a precis of the
provisions Of this very treaty, and
documents which show that the HAITI
king was still overload In Mesopo-
tamia and able to deal on a footing Of
secure independence with Babylon.
These records bring the history to
about 1850 B. c. We know something
Of two more kings Of Boghaz-Keui,
making eight in all. The last
reigned on the eve Of that great re-
vival on the Tigris, which would ul-
timately bring Assyria down to the
Mediterranean, and in his time the
Haiti empire Vas evidently ~decaying;
for there were kings in Syria. where
the monarch ON Boghaz-Keui had
once ruled alone. To this Syrian
part Of the empire we know what
happened at the last. It 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 al only guess.
Assyrian pressure was felt even there.
for at least one Ninevite king raided
far across Taurus. From the oppo.
site side. the north. a wild people, the
Muski. 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 q monarchy
whose holders, under the names Cor
dias and Midas. loom large in early
Greek legend. The Greeks, finding
the coasts undefended which the Gre
tans of Minos had not been able to
conquer, came over and colonized
them. Lydia rose last on the ruins OF
Phygia, and by this time the power
Of Bobhaz-Keui was only a name. To
Judge from the remains of the city
so far uncovered, 1t had enjoyed a sec
ond spring at some period, perhaps
about 1000 B. c.: but this must have
been short. Greek literature makes
only one doubtful alluslon to it In the
sixth century, and none at all to Its
former greatness. Yet, all forgotten
as it was by the people In whose
hands in chief the transmission O
early history was to lie. the Haiti EN-
pire had not existed in vain even fol
the development of that same people
Occupying for several centuries the
most vital part of West Asia. through
which all the land routes between
east and west must pass, the HIATT
had been the main agents through
whom the civilizing influences of thu
east had passed. Their art awakened
art in Phrygia and Lydia, and left it
mark on the first Greek handiwork II
Ionia. From their Photographic sys
tenn of writing were derived many al
phabetic characters still used in Hell
i lenised parts of South and West ASH;
Minor, in classical times. Their re
. ligion was the type religion of ASH
Minor, and ultimately responsible TO
those so-called "Anatolian" feature
, which spread to Greece and through
, Greece to Rome and the west un
: compromprehended traditions AM
memories Of their society inspired
{ several Greek stories, notably that o
. the Amazons, one Of whom-perhap
!, the divine queen of them all-is carve'
. on a gate post at Boghaz-Keui itsell
1 As in these latter years Crete ha
I shown us much foundation IN rae
! there was for some Of the stranges
. myths of Hellas, so, in a less degree
| has Boghaz-Keui. It has much NOR
/ vet to tell us, for not its tenth par
has been %excavated; and nothing l
to be desired more earnestly than tina
its exploration should be resumed.