Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The archaeological site at Turkey’s Boğazköy-Hattusha, the former capital of the Bronze Age Hittite empire, is a hotbed of ancient ...

Around 1200 BC the stable world of the Bronze Age shattered as drought, earthquakes, economic breakdown, and invasions struck the great empires of the eastern Mediterranean. This episode explores how ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 8 (Reuters) - 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 ...

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 ...

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

The collapse of the Hittite Empire in the Late Bronze Age has been blamed on various factors, from war with other territories to internal strife. Now, scientists have used tree ring and isotope ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...