Of interest is the discovery of a stele from Southeastern Turkey, Zincirli, that appears to record in the Phrygian language the conquest of that area by the Assyrian king, Sennacherib (704-681 B.C.). The area is known to historians as Cilicia, and the eastern corner (area of the Seyhan...
This theory has been accepted by those scholars who maintain that many rich Etruscan families fled to Egypt after the conquest of their principal cities by the Romans during the Republic – a diaspora which could, perhaps, be compared with the exodus of Jews from Germany to America during the...