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 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 ...

A carving from the archaeological site of Hattusha. In the heart of ancient Anatolia, amidst the ruins of the once-mighty Hittite Empire, a remarkable discovery has emerged from the depths of time. A ...

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, ...

Archaeological research in the Middle East is revealing how a long-forgotten ancient civilisation used previously undiscovered linguistics to promote multiculturalism and political stability. The ...

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 ...

An ancient clay tablet found in central Turkey suggests that a little known rival ethnic group was closely involved in the establishment of the Hittite Empire more than 3,000 years ago, Japanese ...