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 ...

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Ramses II ruled Egypt with flair, power and a knack for self-promotion. He was the third ruler of the Nineteenth Dynasty and enjoyed a reign that spanned an astonishing 66 years. It earned not only ...

Homer’s Iliad tells only part of the story, while Hittite tablets hint at a wider Bronze Age conflict involving empires, vassal states, and forgotten alliances. This chapter follows the documents, the ...

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A view of a 72-foot-long tunnel that descends 26 feet below the surface at the Late Bronze Age site of Nerik in what was Anatolia’s Hittite Empire. At its end, the tunnel reaches a water source ...

This article was first published in the ChurchBeat newsletter. Sign up to receive the newsletter in your inbox each Wednesday night. Half of the first six new Latter-day Saint temples scheduled to ...

The empire of the Hittites / by William Wright ; with decipherment of Hittite inscriptions by A.H. Sayce ; a Hittite map by Col. Sir C. Wilson and Capt. Conder ; and a complete set of Hittite ...

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