Researchers recently offered new ideas about the Hittite collapse.

研究人员最近提出了关于赫梯崩溃的新想法。

One of the strongest to disappear was the Hittite empire in what is now Turkey and parts of Syria and Iraq.

消失的最强大的帝国之一是赫梯帝国，它位于现在的土耳其以及叙利亚和伊拉克的部分地区。

" Then Rebekah said to Isaac, " I'm disgusted with living because of these Hittite women.

” 利百加对以撒说：“我对这些赫梯妇女的生活感到厌恶。

So much for the dry history of the Hittite Empire.  But what kind of people resided in this kingdom?

赫梯帝国枯燥的历史到此为止。但是这个王国里住着什么样的人呢？

So David sent this word to Joab: " Send me Uriah the Hittite" . And Joab sent him to David.

大卫差人到约押那里，说：" 你打发赫人乌利亚到我这里来。" 约押就打发乌利亚去见大卫。

Your territory will extend from the desert to Lebanon, and from the great river, the Euphrates—all the Hittite country—to the Mediterranean Sea in the west.

从旷野和这黎巴嫩，直到幼发拉底大河，赫人的全地，又到大海日落之处，都要作你们的境界。

Mr Gunay also forced the German government to return a massive sphinx (pictured) that had been removed in 1917 from Hattusa, the Bronze-Age capital of the Hittite empire.

居纳伊也督促德国政府归还1917年他们从青铜时代的赫梯帝国之都哈图沙拿走的一个巨型狮身人面像。

When the men of the city came out and fought against Joab, some of the men in David's army fell; moreover, Uriah the Hittite died.

城里的人出来和约押打仗。大卫的仆人中有几个被杀的，赫人乌利亚也死了。

In that sense, the Hittite domestic political  changes are not unlike those experienced by the Romans in their transition from Republic  to Empire a millennia-and-a-half later.

从这个意义上说，赫梯国内的政治变化与罗马人在一千年半后从共和国过渡到帝国时所经历的变化并无二致。

To learn more about the history of the Hittites,   check out our book, Hittites: A Captivating Guide to the Ancient Anatolian People Who Established  the Hittite Empire in Ancient Mesopotamia.

要了解有关赫梯人历史的更多信息，请查看我们的书《赫梯人：在古代美索不达米亚建立赫梯帝国的古代安纳托利亚人的迷人指南》。