In 2023, archaeologists unearthed a Hittite royal seal emblazoned with the haunting message "whoever breaks this will die" in ...

The UNESCO World Heritage Site of Boğazköy-Hattuša is located in the north of Turkey. It was once the capital of the Hittite ...

Did the legendary kings of Troy really exist? Some researchers argue that they appear in Hittite letters, but is this really ...

Is there any evidence that king Atreus of Mycenae really existed? Can he be identified with the Attarsiya of ancient Hittite ...

The archaeological site of Hattusha, former capital of the Hittite Empire, is notable for its urban organization ... Those discoveries gave access to one of the most fascinating ancient cities of the ...

Per Anatolian Archaeology, ancient rock tombs found in Şanlıurfa usually date to the late Hittite and Roman periods. The Hittite Empire flourished in Anatolia (present-day Turkey) between about ...

A Japanese research expedition has discovered an ancient tablet in Turkey dating ... The Hurrian language was spoken in kingdoms east of the Hittite Empire. The king of Hittite at the time the ...

Major milestone reached in digital Cuneiform studies: researchers from Mainz, Marburg, and Würzburg present an innovative tool that offers many new possibilities.

The cuneiform tablets discovered there and in other Hittite sites represent one of the largest groups of texts from the ancient Near East. They include thousands of sources in Hittite, an ...

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 ...