A 3,250-year-old seal belonging to a Hittite prince and an ancient cuneiform tablet dating back 3,400 years were discovered in Turkey's southern Hatay province. The excavations in Accana Hoyuk of the ...

HATAY PROVINCE, TURKEY—Yeni Şefak reports that a tablet bearing Akkadian cuneiform texts and a 3,250-year-old seal were uncovered in southern Turkey, at the site of the Bronze Age capital of Alalakh. ...

THE opening out of the history of man during the last thirty years has been quite as surprising as the growth of other branches of science. In place of trying to extract some further ideas from the ...

III. THE conclusion has been already expressed that the Hittite inscription of the Tarkutimme seal is, in the main, ideographic, and that the phonetic element is supplementary; that, in fact, ...

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A major exhibition at the Louvre in Paris has been shedding light on the Hittites, a formidable foe of the ancient Egyptian New Kingdom, writes David Tresilian Centred in southern Anatolia and the ...

I. The enigma of their existence -- 1. Discovery and wild surmise -- Leander swan from Asia to Europe -- What was known about the Hittites in A.D. 1871 -- What is known today -- Asia Minor: A winter ...

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Nine layers of millenia-old ruins dating back to the ancient Hittite civilization were discovered in central Turkey, an archeologist said on Thursday. "We have identified nine layers of construction ...

The powerful Hittite Empire was rival to Egypt until it disappeared. A new study may explain why. Carved stone lions flank a gate at the ancient Hittite capital of Hattusa in central Turkey. The ...