The discovery sheds some light on a "lost" dynasty of pharaohs who ruled during a little-understood time in ancient Egypt's ...

A multitude of mysteries remain unsolved about the ancient Greek world, providing more questions than answers.

The UNESCO World Heritage Site of Boğazköy-Hattuša is located in the north of Turkey. It was once the capital of the Hittite ...

In 2023, archaeologists unearthed a Hittite royal seal emblazoned with the haunting message "whoever breaks this will die" in ...

The cuneiform tablets discovered there and in other Hittite sites represent one of the largest groups of texts from the ancient Near East. They include thousands of sources in Hittite, an ...

Major milestone reached in digital Cuneiform studies: researchers from Mainz, Marburg, and Würzburg present an innovative tool that offers many new possibilities.

Is there any evidence that king Atreus of Mycenae really existed? Can he be identified with the Attarsiya of ancient Hittite ...

Buried for millennia, their beautiful preservation means archaeologists can now dig deeper into the Neo-Assyrian Empire's history ... a storm deity worshipped by the ancient Hittites. Thousands of ...

Egypt has always been a land rich in mineral resources, and its gold has been coveted since ancient times. During the New Kingdom (1500-1000 BCE), mining in the Eastern Desert reached its first major ...

This site, identified as the ancient Hittite city of Nerik, has revealed a water control infrastructure dating back to the Bronze Age, between 1525 and 1426 BCE, according to dendrochronological and ...