Were the Hittites of the Bible the same as those of the Hittite Empire? While this is a common assumption, what do the facts ...

Credit: M. Lehmann / Oymaağaç Project Nerik, the city where this discovery was made, was an important religious center of the Hittites, linked to the cult of the storm god. Its location in northern ...

The discovery challenges a long-standing agreement in archeological circles that the Iron Age began in the Hittite Empire of Anatolia, where iron smelting and use is believed to have emerged ...

Between about 1400 and 1200 B.C.E., the Hittite Empire thrived in Anatolia, now known as Turkey. The Romans began ...

The Hittites, who ruled over Anatolia from around 1600 to 1200 b.c., are known to have commonly sacrificed pigs in ritual acts. As the Bronze Age progressed, however, swine were gradually excluded ...

He noted that following the success of the Göbeklitepe exhibition in Rome, the "Hittites" exhibition in Seoul continues efforts to introduce Anatolia's ancient heritage worldwide. The exhibition will ...

The Central Anatolia region's rich history has been shaped by the Hittites, Phrygians, Romans, Byzantines, Seljuks, Germiyanids, and Ottomans. Archaeological findings even reveal traces of human ...

The UNESCO World Heritage Site of Boğazköy-Hattuša is located in the north of Turkey. It was once the capital of the Hittite ...

and other institutions have discovered that radical inequality existed in burial practices among teenagers in Early Bronze Age Anatolia, predating the development of social hierarchies in the ...