A stunning and informative graphic from the National Post. Why are we doing this? How can we possibly afford it? Over to you, Bill Kauffman. This is a good place to commend to you my TAC colleague ...

Archaeological excavations in Hattusa, the ancient capital of the Hittite Empire (present-day Bogazkoy), led to the discovery of this yet-unknown language. The archaeological site is situated ...

Ongoing excavations in Turkey – in the ruins of the ancient capital of the Hittite empire – are yielding remarkable evidence that the imperial civil service included entire departments fully ...

Ruled by Hammurabi, restored by Nebuchadrezzar, conquered by Cyrus—this city in the heart of Mesopotamia was both desired and despised, placing it at the center stage of the dawn of history.

Journal of Ancient Near Eastern History, Vol. 11, Issue. 1, p. 161. In this book, Claudia Glatz reconsiders the concept of empire and the processes of imperial making and undoing of the Hittite ...

A Japanese research expedition has discovered an ancient tablet in Turkey dating ... The Hurrian language was spoken in kingdoms east of the Hittite Empire. The king of Hittite at the time the ...

In the time of the empire, Roman emperors grandly ... A world of "Wise Women", seers, scribes and ancient urban culture. We hear of Troy through the Hittite royal correspondence, excavated over ...

The resting place of Noah’s Ark—a ship said in the Bible to have saved two of every animal during an ancient Great Flood sent by God to flush evil out of the world—may have been located ...

Nov. 7, 2024 — Researchers have used ancient DNA to challenge long-held interpretations of the people of Pompeii. Contrary to physical appearances, the DNA evidence revealed unexpected ...

For example, one estimate is that one third of the Roman empire’s entire revenue was generated by taxes on trade with ancient India. Historian William Dalrymple’s latest book — The Golden ...

The material, light tan and granular, had been a critical component of the Roman Empire, he said ... a scanning electron image of an ancient Roman concrete sample with lime clast, highlighted ...