Royaumes oubliés, de l’empire hittite aux Araméens, Louvre, Paris, until 12 August. *A version of this article appears in print in the 12 September, 2019 edition of Al-Ahram Weekly* ...

The Hittites were a powerful empire in the second millennium B.C., battling the Egyptians and Assyrians before 'disappearing' around 1198 B.C. Photograph by Ali Balikci, Anadolu Agency/Getty Images ...

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 ...

Hittites, Assyrians, Arabs, Mongols, Mamelukes and Ottomans all ruled it before it became part of modern Syria. Before the civil war, it was Syria’s capital of industry and finance.

"It's also worth noting that Assyrians most likely had learned aspects of chariot-making and chariot warfare from the Hittites, an ancient Indo-European people whom the Assyrians came into contact ...

The Hittites used spoked wheels on their chariots, which appeared in China around 1300 BC during the late Shang Dynasty (c. 16th century-11th century BC).

Eunuchs appeared in the courts of the Hittites and Assyrians (civilisations in modern-day Turkey and Iraq respectively) from the 13th century BCE. Assyrian kings often appointed eunuchs as ...

The area is known to have been home throughout history to Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians, Hittites, Assyrians, Romans, Seljuks, and Ottomans, among others. The latest archeologic excavations in ...

The Egyptian empire went into terminal decline. The Hittite empire fell, and the Assyrian and Babylonian empires faltered. The Mycenaeans, Minoans and Canaanites disappeared from the record.

Hittite Cuneiform Tablet Translated News March 12, 2024 (Courtesy Kimiyoshi Matsumura, Japanese Institute of Anatolian Archaeology, Middle Eastern Culture Center in Japan) ...

Archaeologists think the first Hittite kingdoms formed in central Anatolia — now Turkey — in about 2100 B.C. and the Hittites had become a major regional power by 1450 B.C. Hittites appear in ...