The Hittite Empire was one of the great powers of the ancient Near East, ruling much of Anatolia and northern Syria during the Late Bronze Age. Although often overshadowed by Egypt and Mesopotamia, ...

The empire of the Hittites / by William Wright ; with decipherment of Hittite inscriptions by A.H. Sayce ; a Hittite map by Col. Sir C. Wilson and Capt. Conder ; and a complete set of Hittite ...

A three-year-drought may have led to the fall of the Hittite empire in the Middle East 3000 years ago. The finding comes from analysing timber used to make the burial chamber of a later ruler, who may ...

Examination of trees alive at the time shows three years of severe drought that may have caused crop failures and famine Researchers have offered new insight into the abrupt collapse of the ancient ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON : 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 eastern ...