A REPRESENTATION of a bull in silver from recent excavations in Anatolia, and described as the most important work of art of Hittite origin yet discovered, is to be exhibited at the forthcoming ...

Here visitors can see some of the most remarkable surviving examples of Hittite relief art with gods, goddesses, and the ...

The walls of the rock chambers are covered with the richest and most striking samples of Hittite relief art, featuring gods and goddesses and the figures of the Great King Tuthaliya IV. Kayalı Boğaz, ...

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 ...

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 ...

An ancient Middle-Eastern empire had already mastered the art of biological warfare almost 3,500 years ago, according to an Italian scientist. The Hittites of Anatolia, whose empire stretched from ...

The area being excavated is Boğazköy-Hattusha, the former capital of the Hittite Empire. The Hittites are one of the world's oldest known civilizations, with the world's oldest known Indo ...

Researchers think a sacred language inscribed in cuneiform on the tablet suggest the Hittite king visited or lived where the tablet was found in Turkey. When you purchase through links on our site ...