During excavations of the ruins, archaeologists uncovered a new language written on a tablet detailing a foreign ritual.

The 'whoever breaks this will die' message was written in an ancient Middle Eastern logosyllabic writing system and was ...

A 3,300-year-old Hittite seal found in Turkey contains the warning 'whoever breaks this will die', likely used to punish ...

To the locals in Boğazkale, central Turkey, the smooth green boulder lying in the nearby ruins of an ancient temple has magical powers. It is a wishing stone, granting whomever places their hands upon ...

Tarhuntasha’s time at the center of the empire was brief—after Muwatalli’s death, the Hittite royal court moved back to Hattusha, but Tarhuntasha remained a province of the empire. Although ...

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 ...

A view of a 72-foot-long tunnel that descends 26 feet below the surface at the Late Bronze Age site of Nerik in what was Anatolia’s Hittite Empire. At its end, the tunnel reaches a water source ...

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 ...

The 3,300-year-old tablet was uncovered from the Büklükale ruins near the Kizilirmak River, 60 miles outside of Ankara, ...