When I was in college, I took a graduate-level seminar on the language of the Hittites, a Bronze Age people of Anatolia. I was interested in their highly archaic Indo-European argot, both the oldest ...
With new translations from the long-extinct Hittite language, UChicago Ph.D. student Naomi Harris brought verses from clay ...
The UNESCO World Heritage Site of Boğazköy-Hattuša is located in the north of Turkey. It was once the capital of the Hittite Empire, a great power in the late Bronze Age around 1650 to 1200 BC. The ...
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 ...
Ancient Cuneiform Script found in a Czech cave surprises researchers as they investigate whether it reflects lost cultural links.
Archaeologists working in western Asia Minor say they have mapped a dense constellation of 483 ancient settlements that once ...
During the second millennium B.C., the Hittite kings relied on their control of staple crops to maintain their expanding empire in central Anatolia, where rainfall was unpredictable. At ...