The Hittite Empire was one of the great powers of the ancient Near East, ruling much of Anatolia and northern Syria during the Late Bronze Age. Although often overshadowed by Egypt and Mesopotamia, ...

Suppiluliuma, the Defender, was the last Great King of the Hittite Empire. He has but one aim and that is to rebuild and defend Hatti from insurgents both from within and outside of his borders. As ...

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 ...

They fought the Egyptians, sacked Babylon, and built elaborate cities. Then the Hittites vanished. Today, new discoveries are restoring the legend of a forgotten superpower. A procession of gods ...

Three years of extreme drought may have brought about the collapse of the mighty Hittite Empire around 1200 BC, researchers have said, linking the plight of the fallen civilization to the modern world ...

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 archaeological site at Turkey’s Boğazköy-Hattusha, the former capital of the Bronze Age Hittite empire, is a hotbed of ancient languages. During excavations of the ruins, archaeologists uncovered ...

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 ...

Müge Durusu-Tanrıöver is in the Department of Art History, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, USA. The cause of the havoc wreaked at the end of ...