Around 1200 BC the stable world of the Bronze Age shattered as drought, earthquakes, economic breakdown, and invasions struck ...

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

A remarkable discovery of thousands of clay tablets revealed the long forgotten Hittite civilization, its language, religion, and laws. These records opened a rare window into one of the earliest Indo ...

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 ...

A federal judge said the Empire Wind project off Long Island would suffer “irreparable harm” if the Trump administration continued to hold up work. By Lisa Friedman Reporting from Washington President ...

Tarhuntasha’s time at the center of the empire was brief—after Muwatalli’s death, the Hittite royal court moved back to Hattusha, but Tarhuntasha remained a province of the empire. Although ...