Royaumes oubliés, de l’empire hittite aux Araméens, Louvre, Paris, until 12 August. *A version of this article appears in print in the 12 September, 2019 edition of Al-Ahram Weekly * ...

The ancient empire that civilization forgot. They fought the Egyptians, sacked Babylon, and built elaborate cities. Then the Hittites vanished. Today, new discoveries are restoring the legend of a ...

The battle opened with King Ramses II of Egypt — played by Wesley Horn ’28 — wheeling in on a handmade chariot to face off against the Hittite Empire. King Muwatalli II of the Hittite Empire — played ...

Evidence Of Ancient High Technology At Hattusa In Turkey. Uncover advanced stone-cutting techniques in Hattusa, the ancient capital of the Hittite Empire#AncientTurkey#LostTechnology# ...

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 Hittite Empire ruled much of Anatolia and what is now Syria from about 1650 until about 1200 B.C. Most famously, they fought Egypt for control of Canaan in 1274 B.C. at the Battle of Kadesh, ...

Recent research has identified fragments of the epic on tablets found in the ancient city of Hattusa, the capital of the Hittite Empire, located in present-day Turkey. These texts reveal not only the ...

Earlier, people of the Hittite Empire (in today's Turkiye) were believed to be the first to use iron, in 1,380 BCE. "We have scientifically established that iron was introduced 5,300 years ago in ...

Together with Hittite, its sister language, it formed one of the main linguistic families of this region and survived the fall of the Hittite Empire in the 12th century BCE, extending its use to the ...

Archaeologists discovered a royal seal from the ancient Hittite Empire that warns of death if a contract is broken. Contracts during this time often had consequences if broken, but death as a ...

The ruined temple lies within what remains of Hattusa, the capital city of the Hittite empire. The Hittites formed one of the first major civilizations of the late Bronze Age, settling in modern ...