A procession of gods marches across the wall of what may have been a royal mausoleum near Hattusa, capital of the lost Hittite Empire. The ancient city—in what is today central Türkiye—was ...

Who was Dyeus Pater, and why does his name echo in deities from India to Rome? This historical journey explores the linguistic legacy of a proto-Indo-European Sky Father, reconstructing his presence ...

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 ...

They both pay homage to the pharaoh and the gods. Image courtesy Bibliothek Universität Halle The account of the Hittite princess’s journey to Pi-Ramses was engraved on a large stela in the ...

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 ...

some of the most important of these tell the story of the exploits and quarrels of the gods, which in their essential features differ little from those of other Middle Eastern peoples. The Hittite ...

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 ...