Harry Hoffner, a professor at the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute, was a nationally known scholar of the language of the Hittites, whose formidable empire was dominant from the 17th to the ...

The archive of cuneiform clay tablets from Bogazköy (ancient Hattusas) presents the only extant recorded material about the civilization of Hittites, one of the most powerful political organisations ...

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

The archaeological site of Hattusha, former capital of the Hittite Empire, is notable for its urban organization, the types of construction that have been preserved (temples, royal residences, ...

Learn more about the new language researchers uncovered at the Boğazköy-Hattusha site, indicating the city’s residents loved learning and writing in foreign languages. An Indo-European language has ...

When I was in college, I took a graduate-level seminar on the language of the Hittites, a Bronze Age people of Anatolia. I was interested in their highly archaic Indo-European argot, both the oldest ...

In the Turkish province of Corum, home to the ancient Hittite capital of Hattusha, a women’s cooperative has revived the 3,500-year-old “Hittite bread” mentioned in archaeological tablets, producing ...

An Indo-European language has resurfaced after a 2023 excavation in Turkiye (Turkey). The UNESCO World Heritage Site of Boğazköy-Hattusha has been a treasure trove of archaeological artifacts. Once ...