Have you ever felt thunder shake the windows or watched lightning split the sky and wondered who—or what—might be behind such ...

But how did Ramesses II die and what happened following the celebrated pharaoh's death? First, let's start with Ramesses II's ...

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 ...

What do the facts show? First, let us examine what the Bible says about the Hittites. They first appear in the book of Genesis, where they have dealings with Abraham. Later, they appear as one of the ...

A Hittite document from the mid-13th century BCE. Credit: Wikimedia Commons, CC-BY-SA-4.0 Firstly, let us examine who exactly Atreus of Mycenae supposedly was. He appears in a variety of ancient Greek ...

For example, while in the Babylonian version, Gilgamesh is presented as a tyrannical king who learns about mortality and wisdom through the loss of his friend Enkidu, in the Hittite version, there ...

in Hittite and Hurrian as Ellel, in Hebrew El-Elohim in Arabic as Al-Ilahi, the God or Allat, a pre Islamic Goddess, one of three daughters of Al-Ilah worshiped in Palmyra as Allat and referred to ...

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 ...

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Uriah the Hittite is one of those characters in the Bible who comes in and out of God’s story quickly but whose life and actions have an impact for generations. So, who was Uriah the Hittite, and ...