The Hittite Empire was one of the great powers of the ancient Near East, ruling much of Anatolia and northern Syria during ...

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 ...

The Hittites lived in Anatolia some 3,500 years ago. They used clay tablets to keep records of state treaties and decrees, prayers, myths, and summoning rituals, using a language that researchers were ...

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 ...

From the thundering chariot raids that brought down Hammurabi's heirs to the cycle of regicide that nearly destroyed a rising ...

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 ...

An ancient city on the Turkey-Syria border, which was the most significant administration center of the Hittites who ruled over Anatolia and Mesopotamia for centuries, is gearing up to open for ...

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 ...

Rolling over enemies, the Hittite fleet looked unstoppable when they fought Egypt in the biggest chariot battle ever. A stone relief depicts a chariot crushing an enemy. It was created in the tenth to ...