The property consists of the Hittite city area, the rock sanctuary of Yazılıkaya on the north, the ruins of Kayalı Boğaz on the east and the İbikçam Forest on the south. A monumental enclosure wall of ...

Did the legendary kings of Troy really exist? Some researchers argue that they appear in Hittite letters, but is this really ...

This represents evidence of the sophisticated water management of the Hittite civilization. To determine the exact age of the installation, researchers from the BAD Project conducted a detailed ...

When people think of ancient civilizations, their minds often drift to the best pyramids of ancient Egypt or the Roman ruins and structures still in use today. Yet scattered across the pages of ...

The Buklukale ruins contain artifacts dating from the Ottoman ... The shape of the cuneiform letters dates it back to the Hittite kingdom during the 14th century BC. The cuneiform writing includes ...

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 ...

The cuneiform tablets discovered there and in other Hittite sites represent one of the largest groups of texts from the ancient Near East. They include thousands of sources in Hittite, an ...

The tablet, measuring about 3 centimeters, was unearthed in June near palace remains in Buklukale, the ruins of a Hittite urban settlement in central Anatolia, Turkey, which expedition members ...

Hittite culture survived—the Israelite king ... The Bronze Age was remembered in Homer’s oral legend, and Greek civilization took centuries to rebound. As everywhere, the collapse of large ...