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The Unknown Achaean-Hittite Conflicts in Late Bronze Age!

Research on hittite inscriptions found in many prehistoric sites of the Hittite Empire (Bronze Age) shed light on a historical subject that is largely unknown to us, the military operations of Mycenaean (Achaean) Greeks on the coast of Anatolia (M Asia).

Mycenaean chariot warriors.

It seems that the so-called "Trojan War" known to us from the Homeric Epics is just an episode of a long war and an extensive dispute over the control of the Ionian coast between Achaeans, Hittites and many intermediate independent kingdoms.

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