Then the Hittites vanished. Today, new discoveries are restoring the legend of a forgotten superpower. A procession of gods marches across the wall of what may have been a royal mausoleum near ...

They occur on statues of the gods, and they are invocations only ... But, as a specimen of what Captain Conder finds in the Hittite inscriptions, I may give his “free rendering” of the ...

Who was Dyeus Pater, and why does his name echo in deities from India to Rome? This historical journey explores the ...

It turns out, the Hurrian writing is a prayer addressed to Teššob (also spelled Teshub), the Hurrian name of the storm god who was the head of both the Hittite and Hurrian pantheons. It praises ...

The archive includes tablets of many literary works, chiefly of an epic and mythological character; some of the most important of these tell the story of the exploits and quarrels of the gods, which ...

The capital Hattusa, in Turkey’s Çorum province in central Anatolia, was the primary home of the gods of the Hittite world. “It was both a spiritual and political centre,” says Manning.

Archaeologists discovered a royal seal from the ancient Hittite Empire that warns of death if a contract is broken. Contracts during this time often had consequences if broken, but death as a ...

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 ...