When internal assassinations and succession chaos threatened to destroy the Hittite state, one visionary ruler—Tel Appena—broke the cycle of regicide with a revolutionary decree that would stabilize a ...

The Hatti people ruled central Anatolia for millennia, building prosperous trade networks and impressive settlements until Indo-European warriors from the north swept down and transformed their world.

Ramses and the Pharaohs’ Gold is, let’s not shy away from it, a profit-seeking exhibition mounted by an entertainment ...

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

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

Hittites were one of the great powers of the Bronze Age, famed for their numerous conquests and wars against fellow empires such as Egypt and Babylonia. In this video, we talk about the Hittite ...

Statues of gods featured prominently throughout the ancient world, but many of those that are best known from literary evidence have never been found. These include the nearly 40-foot-tall ivory and ...

A previously undocumented language has been discovered at the site of Boğazköy-Hattusha, the former capital of the Hittite Empire in central Turkey. The language was found inscribed on a cuneiform ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Today, the ancient city of Hattusha—the capital of the Hittite empire that ruled north-central Turkey in ...

If you find an error in a book in GITenberg, you can report it by clicking the Issues tab in this book’s repository. Please copy-and-paste the entire sentence that ...