About 3,300 years ago, in the early 13th century B.C., an Egyptian statue was made. It was carved from granite and contained ...

Recent archaeological findings have unearthed a complex network of massive Bronze Age fortifications in Central Europe, ...

Prof. Pittard then went on to show that a close study of the Hittites indicated that all these elements of civilization were well known to them from early times, this leading to the supposition ...

Italian researchers suggest that symbols from the oldest writing system in the world may have come directly from cylinder seal motifs.

Text engraved on the tablet was in the language of the Hurrians, who are believed to have been once powerful enough to vie for hegemony in the ancient Orient with the Hittites and the Egyptians.

In 1300BC, at the height of the Bronze Age, the great powers of Egypt, the Hittites in central Turkey, the Greeks, Babylonians and Middle Eastern city states would have seemed secure to any ...

According to Deuteronomy, before the Israelites entered Canaan, God commanded them not to intermarry. Canaan was the land of Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and ...

During the second millennium B.C., the Hittites ruled over a powerful empire that spread across much of modern-day Turkey. Over the past century, archaeologists have uncovered hundreds of clay ...

En déchiffrant l’écriture cunéiforme sur les tablettes retrouvées, ils ont pu mettre un nom sur cette civilisation perdue : les Hittites. Ce peuple a vécu au IIe millénaire avant J.-C. dans l’Asie ...

Located at the crossroads of several trade routes from the 2nd millennium B.C., Aleppo was ruled successively by the Hittites, Assyrians, Arabs, Mongols, Mamelukes and Ottomans. The 13th-century ...

Ancient Greeks of Bactria ruled over Gujarat, India under Menander around 150 B.C. and established trade contracts with the ...

During the second millennium B.C., the Hittites ruled over a powerful empire that spread across much of modern-day Turkey. Over the past century, archaeologists have uncovered hundreds of clay ...