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Ancient Hittite Text Reveals a 3,600-Year-Old Royal Power Struggle and a Woman Called the ‘Serpent’
An ancient Hittite text preserves the story of a royal power struggle that unfolded around 3,600 years ago, when a king rejected his intended successor and accused the young man of falling under the influence of a woman he described with a striking word: “serpent.” The episode appears in the political testament of Hattusili I,…