When archaeologists unearthed a vast tablet archive at Hattusa, a lost empire suddenly gained a voice of its own. This chapter follows the decipherment, then steps inside the Hittite Old Kingdom, its ...

After the Old Kingdom fell, the Hittite state did not vanish, it hardened into a new form during an under-documented Middle Kingdom. This chapter follows the missing records, the churn of usurpers, ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Around 1200 BC, human civilization experienced a harrowing setback with the near-simultaneous demise or diminishment of several important empires in the Middle East and eastern ...

They fought the Egyptians, sacked Babylon, and built elaborate cities. Then the Hittites vanished. Today, new discoveries are restoring the legend of a forgotten superpower. A procession of gods ...

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An intriguing group of limestone carvings at the Yazilikaya Rock Temple in Turkey may hold the secret to the afterlife — at least as the people of the Hittite kingdom understood it. The 3,200-year-old ...

A shrine built more than 3000 years ago in what is now Turkey may be a symbolic representation of the cosmos, according to a new interpretation. It has now been suggested that the elite of the Hittite ...