At its height, the ancient city of Hattuşa, capital of the Hittite civilization, must have been awe-inspiring. Built into a steep hillside in what is today central Türkiye, the city was ringed ...

Researchers think a sacred language inscribed in cuneiform on the tablet suggest the Hittite king visited or lived where the tablet was found in Turkey. When you purchase through links on our site ...

It was found in the Hittite ruins of Büklükale, located around 37 miles southeast of Ankara. The tablet may offer new insights into a darker chapter in the history of the Hittite Empire.

It appears to refer to a language from an area once called Kalašma, on the northwestern edge of the Hittite civilization, where the Turkish towns of Bolu and Gerede currently exist. The language ...

The archeological site at Turkey’s Boğazköy-Hattusha, the former capital of the Bronze Age Hittite empire, is a hotbed of ancient languages. This year, during excavations of the ruins ...

and could undermine any civilization. The capital Hattusa, in Turkey’s Çorum province in central Anatolia, was the primary home of the gods of the Hittite world. “It was both a spiritual and ...

Human civilization has, over the centuries, shown a consistent ability to adapt to gradual climate change. Scientists have wondered, therefore, why the mighty Hittite empire, which had survived a ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Around 1200 BC, human civilization experienced a harrowing ... One of the mightiest to perish was the Hittite empire, centered in modern Turkey and spanning parts ...

Harry Hoffner, a professor at the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute, was a nationally known scholar of the language of the Hittites, whose formidable empire was dominant from the 17th ...