WASHINGTON, Feb 8 (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 ...

A new language has been discovered in a UNESCO World Heritage Site being excavated in northern Turkey, according to a news release from the University of Würzburg. The area being excavated is Boğazköy ...

The ancient Anatolian empire of the Hittites mysteriously collapsed more than 3,000 years ago. Now, researchers find that climate change could have played a part. A study that ties together climate ...

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 ...

Archaeologists have uncovered what may be the largest known monument from the Hittite civilization—an empire that once ruled ...

For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets and translators to dissect the poems they’ve published in our pages.

Tarhuntasha’s time at the center of the empire was brief—after Muwatalli’s death, the Hittite royal court moved back to Hattusha, but Tarhuntasha remained a province of the empire. Although ...

The archaeological site of Hattusha, former capital of the Hittite Empire, is notable for its urban organization, the types of construction that have been preserved (temples, royal residences, ...

Rolling over enemies, the Hittite fleet looked unstoppable when they fought Egypt in the biggest chariot battle ever. A stone relief depicts a chariot crushing an enemy. It was created in the tenth to ...

The Jewish people, in the opinion of the famous Czecho-Slovakian Orientalist, Prof. Hroseny, of Prague University, are not Semites, but Hittites, declares a special copyrighted article to the Chicago ...