but also reveals the Hittite origin of the early Etruscans themselves ... about two inches in height and three inches by two and a half in diameter. The excavators at once recognized the ...

Now, a study by Italian researchers reveals that some of these earliest proto-cuneiform signs may have evolved directly from motifs on prehistoric cylinder seals ... more than half of which ...

The seal, Akar explained, identifies a previously unknown Hittite prince whose name will be revealed when the research in completed. To read about a cache of thousands of Hittite cuneiform texts ...

The volume here noted deals with a branch of the Hittite work which has a wide historical interest, for the small seals are distinctive in their styles, and serve to show connections with work in ...

A 3,250-year-old seal belonging to a Hittite prince and an ancient cuneiform tablet dating back 3,400 years were discovered in Turkey's southern Hatay province. The excavations in Accana Hoyuk of ...

The area being excavated is Boğazköy-Hattusha, the former capital of the Hittite Empire. The Hittites are one of the world's oldest known civilizations, with the world's oldest known Indo ...

Long ago Dictator Kamal Ataturk set archeologists to work digging up old Hittite civilizations of Asia Minor. Favorite Kamal Ataturk theses— largely unconfirmed by reputable anthropologists and ...

Peak Population: 40,000-50,000 The Hittites moved their capital to Hattusa in the first half of the 2nd millennium BC (it was ...

It was once the capital of the Hittite Empire, a great power in the late Bronze Age around 1650 to 1200 BC. The cuneiform tablets discovered there and in other Hittite sites represent one of the ...

No one knows for sure what happened to the ancient Hittite Empire ... a record of the weather throughout their life spans. In the half-century leading up to empire’s collapse, the scientists ...

According to correspondence from the period of Akhenaten, roughly a century before Ramses II’s jubilee, the quickest route from the Hittite capital to Egypt, took around a month and a half.