Peacekeeping for moderns: Lessons from the Ancient Near East

Gorris, Elynn;Di Biase-Dyson, Camilla
(2023) Department of History and Archaeology Seminar — Location: Macquarie University (21.March.2023)

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  • Di Biase-Dyson, Camilla
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The peace treaty between Ramesses II of Egypt and Ḫattušili III of Ḫatti (modern day Turkey), the earliest extant case in world history (2nd millennium BCE), still has many secrets to reveal. Who wrote it? Did they really record it on precious silver? Why is the Egyptian version so different from the Akkadian version? Egypt and Ḫatti seem to have already been at peace at the time, so why did they bother to create a new treaty? It takes a specialist of Akkadian (Elynn) and a specialist of Egyptian (Camilla) to work together and start working it out...
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Gorris, E., & Di Biase-Dyson, C. (2023). Peacekeeping for moderns: Lessons from the Ancient Near East. Department of History and Archaeology Seminar, Macquarie University. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/104788