Learn more about the new language researchers uncovered at the Boğazköy-Hattusha site, indicating the city's residents loved ...

“The Hittites were uniquely interested in recording rituals in foreign languages,” Daniel Schwemer, head of the Chair of ...

News Published: 29 March 1888 The Hittites, with Special Reference to Very Recent Discoveries 1 Nature 37, 511–514 (1888) Cite this article ...

The Hittites are one of the world's oldest known civilizations, with the world's oldest known Indo-European language, and excavations at that site have been ongoing for more than 100 years, the ...

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 ...

Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images From around 1650 to 1200 B.C.E., the Hittite Empire ruled over much of Anatolia in modern Turkey, as well as northern Syria.

More than 3,500 years ago, a rising kingdom called the Hittite Empire was expanding, testing the limits of its strength. It would soon destroy Babylon, but first, its army sacked and burned a city ...

New research suggests drought accelerated empire collapse Date: February 8, 2023 Source: Cornell University Summary: The collapse of the Hittite Empire in the Late Bronze Age has been blamed on ...

Around 1200 BC, human civilization experienced a harrowing setback with the near-simultaneous demise or diminishment of several important empires in the Middle East and eastern Mediterranean ...

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.

The Hittite empire, which encompassed most of what is now Turkey and lasted nearly five centuries, was one of the major geopolitical forces of the ancient world, with a mastery of ironwork, a ...

The first two languages are closely related to Hittite, the university said, while the third language differs. The new language was found where the Palaic language was spoken, but researchers ...