Findings from 3,300-year-old Uluburun shipwreck reveal complex trade network

Re:Findings from 3,300-year-old Uluburun shipwreck reveal co... by s3000 on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @01:11PM (#33884533)

>the mines in ancient Anatolia during the Late Bronze Age were under the control of the Hittites, an imperial global power of great threat to Ramses the Great of Egypt

What's the reason to call the Hittites a great threat to Ramses? They had the first known peace treaty [1] with Egypt which should lead to the opposite reputation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian%E2%80%93Hittite_peace...

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Re:Findings from 3,300-year-old Uluburun shipwreck reveal co... by humantorso on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @01:13PM (#33884561)

You usually don't sign peace treaties with allies?

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Re:Findings from 3,300-year-old Uluburun shipwreck reveal co... by bandrami on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @02:01PM (#33885254)

You don't sign peace treaties with people who aren't threats

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Re:Findings from 3,300-year-old Uluburun shipwreck reveal co... by s3000 on Thursday December 08, 2022 @05:44AM (#33906494)

Why would you sign a peace treaty if it doesn't turn a threat into something else?

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Re:Findings from 3,300-year-old Uluburun shipwreck reveal co... by rmah on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @02:44PM (#33885912)

Am I the only one who finds it odd to describe an empire that covered turkey and the levant (syria/northern iraq) as "global"?

To answer your question though, the hittites and egypt were fighting over the western levant. Areas of what is now Lebanon and NW Syria.

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