Bogazkoy (ancient Hattusa) is particularly important because, as the centre of the Hittite empire (around 1650 BC to 1200 BC), it was the capital of one of the world’s first half dozen really ...

Hittite cuneiform scripts will go online ... where Hittitology has been a mainstay since the 1960s," said Professor Doris Prechel of the Department of Ancient Studies at Johannes Gutenberg ...

More importantly, the Hittite Empire lasted from 1650 BC to 1180 BC and was one of the great civilizations of the Bronze Age. Unfortunately, we don't know as much about the Hittites as we do about ...

This ancient script has remained unsolved for over a century In 1908, an archaeologist in Crete discovered a small clay disk bearing unknown symbols. Now known as the Phaistos disk, it remains a ...

Created to write the Sumerian language, the script was later adapted for Akkadian and, subsequently, other tongues, such as Hittite. The tablet found in the archaeological site of Alalakh is an ...

The boustrophedon style is not unique to the Indus script; it was also employed in various ancient writing systems, including Greek, Hittite, and Luwian scripts.This method of writing reflects a ...

Climate crisis may have triggered collapse of ancient Hittite empire, study suggests. Researchers found evidence which indicated three straight years of severe drought, in 1198, 1197 and 1196 BC ...

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 ...

Archaeologists have recently discovered a previously unknown ancient language from an ancient tablet during excavations in Turkey. According to the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg in ...

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