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

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

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

WASHINGTON, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Around 1200 BC, human civilization experienced a harrowing setback with the near-simultaneous demise or diminishment of several important empires in the Middle East and ...

I. The enigma of their existence -- 1. Discovery and wild surmise -- Leander swan from Asia to Europe -- What was known about the Hittites in A.D. 1871 -- What is known today -- Asia Minor: A winter ...

A new language has been discovered in a UNESCO World Heritage Site being excavated in northern Turkey, according to a news release from the University of Würzburg. The area being excavated is Boğazköy ...

An ancient tablet inscribed with an ancient Middle Eastern logosyllabic writing system contained a chilling and deadly ...

The ancient Anatolian empire of the Hittites mysteriously collapsed more than 3,000 years ago. Now, researchers find that climate change could have played a part. A study that ties together climate ...

The collapse of the Hittite Empire in the Late Bronze Age has been blamed on various factors, from war with other territories to internal strife. Now, scientists have used tree ring and isotope ...

Most noteworthy non-governmental preoccupations of President-Dictator Mustafa Kamal Ataturk of Turkey are history, archeology, language. Long ago Dictator Kamal Ataturk set archeologists to work ...