Make the Hittites survive as a distinct culture and ethnicity in the same way the Egyptians have.
Do you mean into the present day? because modern Egyptians are culturally Arab.
Do you mean like a really, really long time? have them somehow repel all invaders or at least culturally assimilate the new comers.
How many cultures from that time period really exist as a distinct ethnic entity today? The Greeks, the Egyptians (although, as noted they seem mainly Arab in terms of self-identification), the Chinese and who else?
(Honest question, this is way outside my knowledge area)
The Hindus go way back.
Surviving ancient cultural/ethnic groups
Greeks
Basque?
Berbers?
How many cultures from that time period really exist as a distinct ethnic entity today? The Greeks, the Egyptians (although, as noted they seem mainly Arab in terms of self-identification), the Chinese and who else?
(Honest question, this is way outside my knowledge area)
Basque and Berbers maybe- I'm not sure what their DNA is like.
But Greeks are definitely not very much in continuity with Classical Greeks, except through 19th C nationalist revival.
How about an Isaurian-wank?
(The Great Moderator will close this thread in 3... 2... 1...)
Well, if the theory that ther language is a descendant of Anatolian languages, particularly Luwian,is true, then so be it.Were they even Hittites?
Make the Hittites survive as a distinct culture and ethnicity in the same way the Egyptians have.
Basque and Berbers maybe- I'm not sure what their DNA is like.
But Greeks are definitely not very much in continuity with Classical Greeks, except through 19th C nationalist revival.