At first I thought the Phoenicians had a monopoly on the hat.
Then I see the headdress on the Minoan isle of Crete at Knossos
Then I saw it again referencing El, a Ugarit/Caananite Godhead figure of ancient Babylon (found in Palestine).
And of course the Egyptian reference.
Was there a large borrowing of religious symbolism going on in the Bronze Age? Anyone know the history behind a conical headdress?
I did find an interesting wiki article on head deformations which reminds me of neck stretching covering skulls/practices in the Americas. In addition I found a Time article of a coned skull found in Mexico. The practice from what I've read was done for social distinguishment reasons.
I'm not trying to draw that connection here. I thought these skulls were some type of David Icke conspiracy (which I wanted to counter) thankfully the wikipedia entry does a good job of explaining it. Though, it would be interesting if these ancients [mentioned in the OP] did have [manually] long skulls and hid them from general public as a means to trick the common people into thinking they were divine. However, if that were the case, I'm sure the Wikipedia entry would have pointed out these skulls in the East.
I found another older reference!
May be related to Nimrod and Babel but I have no clue.
I screenshotted and edited and tineyed and translated an article of the stencil'd picture. Something to do with the Hittites, a civ founded as early as 6000 BC in/around Turkey
