A major exhibition at the Louvre in Paris has been shedding light on the Hittites, a formidable foe of the ancient Egyptian New Kingdom, writes David Tresilian Centred in southern Anatolia and the ...

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 ...

Three years of extreme drought may have brought about the collapse of the mighty Hittite Empire around 1200 BCE, researchers have said, linking the plight of the fallen civilization to the modern ...

Harry Hoffner, a professor at the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute, was a nationally known scholar of the language of the Hittites, whose formidable empire was dominant from the 17th to the ...

Archaeological research in the Middle East is revealing how a long-forgotten ancient civilisation used previously undiscovered linguistics to promote multiculturalism and political stability. The ...

Archaeological excavations will be carried out to unearth one of the most important temples of the Hittites in Kayalipinar, a 3,800-year-old ancient city in Turkey’s central Sivas province. "There are ...

Chef Necati Yilmaz pays tribute to the ancient Hittite civilization, which thrived in Anatolia over 3,000 years ago, with an 11-course menu inspired by archaeological research Chef Necati Yilmaz pays ...

Examination of trees alive at the time shows three years of severe drought that may have caused crop failures and famine Researchers have offered new insight into the abrupt collapse of the ancient ...