When Troy finally called for help, the once-mighty Hittites could answer only with a shadow of their former power, weakened by civil war, dynastic crisis, and a throne still not fully secured. This is ...

Learn how AI is helping researchers reconnect shattered clay tablets and recognize the handwriting styles of individual ...

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 ...

I. The enigma of their existence -- 1. Discovery and wild surmise -- Leander swan from Asia to Europe -- What was known about the Hittites in A.D. 1871 -- What is known today -- Asia Minor: A winter ...

Archaeologists discovered a royal seal from the ancient Hittite Empire that warns of death if a contract is broken. Contracts during this time often had consequences if broken, but death as a penalty ...

Three years of minimal rain could have forced the ancient civilization to abandon its capital — and perhaps triggered the empire’s ultimate collapse. The ancient Anatolian empire of the Hittites ...

When I was in college, I took a graduate-level seminar on the language of the Hittites, a Bronze Age people of Anatolia. I was interested in their highly archaic Indo-European argot, both the oldest ...

No one knows for sure what happened to the ancient Hittite Empire. For nearly 500 years, its dominion extended across much of modern Turkey and into Syria and Lebanon. Its kings dwelled in massive ...

Suppiluliuma, the Defender, was the last Great King of the Hittite Empire. He has but one aim and that is to rebuild and defend Hatti from insurgents both from within and outside of his borders. As ...

The ancient Anatolian empire of the Hittites mysteriously collapsed more than 3,000 years ago. Now, researchers find that climate change could have played a part. A study that ties together climate ...