Restoration efforts continue on Late Hittite-era walls at Arslantepe Mound, a 7,000-year-old UNESCO World Heritage site in eastern Türkiye's Malatya province, which were damaged during Türkiye’s ...

A major exhibition at the Louvre in Paris has been shedding light on the Hittites, a formidable foe of the ancient Egyptian New Kingdom, writes David Tresilian Centred in southern Anatolia and the ...

FOR 3200 years they have guarded their secret. The deities carved in limestone near the ancient city of Hattusa are as enigmatic as they are beautiful. Perhaps no longer. A controversial theory ...

Few civilizations have fallen into obscurity as completely — or been rediscovered as dramatically — as the Hittite Empire. For centuries, scholars dismissed the scattered biblical references to ...

Iron Age walls, plaster remains found in mound NİĞDE This year’s excavations unearthed the remains of Iron Age walls and plaster at Porsuk-Zeyve Mound, which is located near the village of Porsuk in ...

An intriguing group of limestone carvings at the Yazilikaya Rock Temple in Turkey may hold the secret to the afterlife — at least as the people of the Hittite kingdom understood it. The 3,200-year-old ...

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Restoration is underway on 3,500-year-old Hittite structures unearthed in the ancient city of Hattusa in the Central Anatolian province of Çorum, alongside ongoing excavations across the UNESCO World ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Handwritten notes accompanying ...

An ancient clay tablet found in central Turkey suggests that a little known rival ethnic group was closely involved in the establishment of the Hittite Empire more than 3,000 years ago, Japanese ...