Golden Hittite Goddess By Automatic Writing, Jamie Phillips, Samuel Claiborn, +26.2k more updated Nov 6, 2011 advertisement ...

They fought the Egyptians, sacked Babylon, and built elaborate cities. Then the Hittites vanished. Today, new discoveries are restoring the legend of a forgotten superpower.

In 2023, archaeologists unearthed a Hittite royal seal emblazoned with the haunting message "whoever breaks this will die" in the ancient city of Büklükale in Türkiye's Kırıkkale Province.

The cuneiform tablet was excavated from Boğazköy-Hattusha, the former capital of the Hittite Empire.

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Archaeologists discovered a royal seal from the ancient Hittite Empire that warns of death if a contract is broken. Contracts during this time often had consequences if broken, but death as a ...

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 Mediterranean ...

Golden Hittite Goddess At the bottom of the elevator (after you meet up with Sully), run along the path to the stairs on the far side of the chasm.

It is attributed to the Hittite people of Anatolia and was possibly intended as an amulet to be worn around the neck. The seated female figure may be a goddess, with her headdress representing the ...

It was already there when the Greeks arrived, since it is of Hittite workmanship. We said that Pausanias considered it a representation of the Mother Goddess, that is, of Cybele, and that was the most ...

Similarly, the seated goddess who wears a typical Hittite polos most probably depicts the Sun goddess of the earth that is most commonly known female partner of the Stormgod in the Hittite Imperial ...