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Hattusa, capital of the Hittites, Turkiye, with reconstruction illustration (lemmy.world)

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[–] Uruanna 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's a few hundred years later, after the Hittites have disappeared, but Assurnasirpal II claims to have scaled a mountain peak "like the point of an iron dagger" to slaughter everyone inside the fortress at the top. Twice.

https://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=assurnasirpal_ii