The Egyptians and Hittites signed the world's first peace treaty, ending years of conflict and shaping early international diplomacy.

A reconstruction of a painted fresco depicting the Battle of Kadesh between the Egyptian Empire and the Hittite Empire. Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images From around ...

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 ...

Harry Hoffner, a professor at the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute, was a nationally known scholar of the language of the Hittites, whose formidable empire was dominant from the 17th to the ...

Three years of extreme drought may have brought about the collapse of the mighty Hittite Empire around 1200 BCE, researchers have said, linking the plight of the fallen civilization to the modern ...

An ancient city on the Turkey-Syria border, which was the most significant administration center of the Hittites who ruled over Anatolia and Mesopotamia for centuries, is gearing up to open for ...

The Jewish people, in the opinion of the famous Czecho-Slovakian Orientalist, Prof. Hroseny, of Prague University, are not Semites, but Hittites, declares a special copyrighted article to the Chicago ...

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 ...

III. THE conclusion has been already expressed that the Hittite inscription of the Tarkutimme seal is, in the main, ideographic, and that the phonetic element is supplementary; that, in fact, ...

They fought the Egyptians, sacked Babylon, and built elaborate cities. Then the Hittites vanished. Today, new discoveries are restoring the legend of a forgotten superpower. A procession of gods ...