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 ...

Three years of minimal rain could have forced the ancient civilization to abandon its capital — and perhaps triggered the empire’s ultimate collapse. The ancient Anatolian empire of the Hittites ...

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, ...

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 ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, archaeologists working at the Boğazköy-Hattusha site in Turkey, the ancient capital of the Hittite empire, have uncovered a new language inscribed on a tablet. This ...