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 ...

Turkey’s landscape is dotted with towns where ancient history isn’t confined to museum walls but lives on in daily life. In ...

A Japanese research expedition has discovered an ancient tablet in Turkey dating back 3,300 years to the Hittite kingdom. Experts say the palm-sized relic is in nearly perfect condition and could ...

The peoples of ancient Anatolia developed several cultures that, although interconnected, were also distinct in several ways.

During the second millennium B.C., the Hittite kings relied on their control of staple crops to maintain their expanding empire in central Anatolia, where rainfall was unpredictable. At state ...

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 ...