A new cache of cuneiform tablets reveals the everyday lives of people in the Hittite Empire—from religious rituals to a ...

A newly enlarged royal archive from Kayalıpınar in central Türkiye records a fever moving from city to city, the illness and ...

Excavations in the ancient city of Boğazköy-Hattusha in Turkey just revealed a tablet that contains a previously unknown Indo-European language. Translation and identification of the language will ...

Learn more about the new language researchers uncovered at the Boğazköy-Hattusha site, indicating the city’s residents loved learning and writing in foreign languages. An Indo-European language has ...

III. THE conclusion has been already expressed that the Hittite inscription of the Tarkutimme seal is, in the main, ideographic, and that the phonetic element is supplementary; that, in fact, ...

Few civilizations have fallen into obscurity as completely — or been rediscovered as dramatically — as the Hittite Empire. For centuries, scholars dismissed the scattered biblical references to ...

A three-year-drought may have led to the fall of the Hittite empire in the Middle East 3000 years ago. The finding comes from analysing timber used to make the burial chamber of a later ruler, who may ...