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Fragment of oldest known peace treaty found in Turkey

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  1. pfdietz · · focus · HN ↗
    Egypt and the Hittites were now concerned with the rise of Assyria.

    All would suffer in the late Bronze Age (LBA) collapse, with the Hittite empire collapsing soon after a string of three drought years about half a century after the treaty. Egypt and Assyria, at least, would persist in truncated form, with the latter rising to new heights of power in the Iron Age.

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