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Climate change may have toppled Hittite Empire: study
The Hittites mysteriously abandoned their capital and religious centre Hattusa around 1200 BC, when the royal line died out and written historical documents dried up.
A sculpture from the Hittite Empire, which suddenly crumbled around 1200 BC during the 'Late Bronze Age collapse'/AFP
By: NewVision Reporter, Journalists @NewVision
Three years of extreme drought may have brought about the collapse of the mighty Hittite Empire around 1200 BC, researchers have said, linking the plight of the fallen civilisation to