The language was used between 1800-1400 B.C. and boasts about 7,000 characters. Suggested by some to be Ancient Greek, it doesn't fit into any Greek Lexicon. Having been found inscribed on stone and metal, stamps and seals, as well as painted and carved into tombs and alters, it was apparently used for both religious and administrative functions. .
4. Hyksos - The Hyksos were a Semitic-speaking people who infiltrated Egypt in the seventeenth century B.C.E. The Hyksos brought some positives to Egypt in the form of new agricultural tools and weapons made from bronze. The Hyksos invasion was short-lived as by the end of the sixteenth century they were eventually undone by their own hand, when the Egyptians used their new-found weaponry against them and drove the Hyksos from Egypt under the rule of pharaoh Ahmose I.
5. Aton - Around 1350 B.C.E., Aton, also called Aten, was introduced by Amenhotep IV and is known as god of the sun disk. He was declared the chief god and worshipped with such great passion that Amenhotep changed his name to Akhenaten (Servant of Aten). Amenhotep's goal of single-handedly changing the religious course of Egypt would lead to his dynasty's end. It was too much to ask Egyptians to change their beliefs and traditions. Before his death, Amenhotep would attempt to change the capital city from Thebes to Akhetaten (Horizon of Aten), a new city about 200 miles north of Thebes. In the process he lost Syria and Canaan. His changes would be undone soon after his death by those who influenced his successor, the young Tutankhamun. He returned the government to Thebes and restored the old gods before he died in 1338 B.C.E. .
6. Hattusha - Hattusha was the capital of the Hittite Empire from 1650 BC to 1200 BC. Hattusha was originally settled in the early Bronze Age around 2000 BC by Hattians, the indigenous people of north-central Anatolia. Soon an Old Assyrian merchant colony, or karma, was established there in the 19th-18th centuries BC (Middle Bronze Age).
