The Iliad preserved Troy as legend, but Hittite records and scattered clues in later Greek texts suggest a wider Bronze Age story hiding in plain sight. This chapter follows the tablets, the names, ...

The regular serial publication of the Society, issued quarterly, is the Journal of the American Oriental Society. The first volume, published in 1843-49, set the tone for all time in the broad scope ...

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, we ...

Rolling over enemies, the Hittite fleet looked unstoppable when they fought Egypt in the biggest chariot battle ever. A stone relief depicts a chariot crushing an enemy. It was created in the tenth to ...