Long before the Hittite Empire rose to challenge Egypt and Assyria, the ancient plateau of Anatolia belonged to a forgotten ...

Maximilians University of Würzburg and the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz has presented an artificial ...

The new AI tool “Palaeographicum” is revolutionizing research into the cultures of the Ancient Near East: It identifies individual variations of cuneiform signs—a huge step forward for academia. In ...

The Hittites were one of the great powers of the ancient Near East, ruling a vast empire that competed with Egypt, Assyria, ...

The Hittites were once a dominant force in the ancient world. They were fierce warriors, skilled diplomats, and master builders who challenged empires like Egypt and reshaped the Near East. Yet ...

I. OF late much has been said concerning the Hittites, and, as might be expected in relation to such a subject, there have been fanciful hypotheses and wild vagaries, repugnant alike to the scientific ...

Hittites were one of the great powers of the Bronze Age, famed for their numerous conquests and wars against fellow empires such as Egypt and Babylonia. In this video, we talk about the Hittite ...

For decades, scholars have pointed to a devastating plague as the likely explanation for the sudden abandonment of Akhetaten, the revolutionary capital built by Pharaoh Akhenaten. However, ...

A 3,300-year-old clay tablet unearthed in central Turkey has painted a tale of a devastating foreign invasion of the Hittite Empire during a period of internal strife and civil war. As the civil war ...

Cuneiform tablets mentioning crown princes and kings provide new insights into how ancient empire used bird omens for state decisions. “Here we see an uninterrupted settlement from the Paleolithic age ...

Chef Necati Yilmaz pays tribute to the ancient Hittite civilization, which thrived in Anatolia over 3,000 years ago, with an 11-course menu inspired by archaeological research ‘Some diners even told ...