The Hittite state, a people who once came to Asia Minor, arose in the 18th and 16th centuries BC. e. It quickly gained strength.. Aliens defeated Babylon, defeated the state of Mitanni, even threatened Egypt, the most powerful power of the ancient world. The Hittites are mentioned in the Bible, but in a strange way the annals of the ancient world bypass the history of this people by silence. It was not until the early 20th century that archaeologists found traces of this mysterious power in Turkey. From the deciphered cuneiform texts it is known that the Hittites built 1600 cities on the Anatolian plateau. Over the past hundred years, less than a dozen of their ruins have been found. Although the full history of this vanished kingdom is not yet, the most important thing has happened: the strongholds of the vanished state have been found, the letters of the Hittites have been read, and an idea of their art and culture has already been compiled. Book A. Volkov and N. Unmistakable tells how the mysterious lands of the Hittites little by little gave out their treasures to scientists, how the mysterious people of antiquity revealed itself to the modern world.