Construction crews in Vienna last year made an unprecedented discovery. They found intertwined skeletal remains in a mass ...

Were the Hittites of the Bible the same as those of the Hittite Empire? While this is a common assumption, what do the facts ...

What false historical information appeared online on April Fool’s Day this year? Did a Hittite document really prove the Trojan War?

VIENNA — As construction crews churned up dirt to renovate a Vienna soccer field last October, they happened upon an unprecedented find: A heap of intertwined skeletal remains in a mass grave dating ...

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

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

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 ...

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

Buried for millennia, their beautiful preservation means archaeologists can now dig deeper into the Neo-Assyrian Empire's history ... a storm deity worshipped by the ancient Hittites. Thousands of ...

Egypt has always been a land rich in mineral resources, and its gold has been coveted since ancient times. During the New Kingdom (1500-1000 BCE), mining in the Eastern Desert reached its first major ...