Then the Hittites vanished. Today, new discoveries are restoring the legend of a forgotten superpower. A procession of gods marches across the wall of what may have been a royal mausoleum near ...

Other temples of similar date and shape, albeit generally smaller, are situated in the Upper City, which mostly consisted of a temple city for the gods and goddesses of the Hittite and Hurrian ...

The Grand Temple dates back to the 13th century C.E. and is the most well-preserved Hittite temple in the world. It was erected in honor of Teshub, the storm god, and the Sun goddess Arinna.

It was once the capital of the Hittite Empire, a great power in the late Bronze Age around 1650 to 1200 BC. The cuneiform tablets discovered there and in other Hittite sites represent one of the ...

An ancient clay tablet found in central Turkey suggests that a little known rival ethnic group was closely involved in the establishment of the Hittite Empire more than 3,000 years ago ...