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 ...

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 ...

The archaeological site at Turkey’s Boğazköy-Hattusha, the former capital of the Bronze Age Hittite empire, is a hotbed of ancient languages. During excavations of the ruins, archaeologists uncovered ...

Müge Durusu-Tanrıöver is in the Department of Art History, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, USA. The cause of the havoc wreaked at the end of ...

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 ...

When I was in college, I took a graduate-level seminar on the language of the Hittites, a Bronze Age people of Anatolia. I was interested in their highly archaic Indo-European argot, both the oldest ...

Investigate high-precision cuts and strange artifacts at Hattusa, the ancient capital of the Hittite Empire#hattusa#turkey#machining Trump administration signs minerals deal with Ukraine in key move ...

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 ...