From Ankara's ancient artifacts to Cappadocia's subterranean labyrinths, one writer follows the Hittites across central ...

A reconstruction of a painted fresco depicting the Battle of Kadesh between the Egyptian Empire and the Hittite Empire. Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images From around ...

Three years of minimal rain could have forced the ancient civilization to abandon its capital — and perhaps triggered the empire’s ultimate collapse. The ancient Anatolian empire of the Hittites ...

The empire of the Hittites / by William Wright ; with decipherment of Hittite inscriptions by A.H. Sayce ; a Hittite map by Col. Sir C. Wilson and Capt. Conder ; and a complete set of Hittite ...

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 ...

A three-year-drought may have led to the fall of the Hittite empire in the Middle East 3000 years ago. The finding comes from analysing timber used to make the burial chamber of a later ruler, who may ...

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 ...

The powerful Hittite Empire was rival to Egypt until it disappeared. A new study may explain why. Carved stone lions flank a gate at the ancient Hittite capital of Hattusa in central Turkey. The ...

I. OF late much has been said concerning the Hittites, and, as might be expected in relation to such a subject, there have been fanciful hypotheses and wild vagaries, repugnant alike to the scientific ...