Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A broken clay tablet with cuneiform against a black background. . Words from a "lost" language spoken more than 3,000 years ago ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeological research in the Middle East is revealing how a long-forgotten ancient civilisation used previously undiscovered ...

Harry Hoffner, a professor at the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute, was a nationally known scholar of the language of the Hittites, whose formidable empire was dominant from the 17th to the ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Today, the ancient city of Hattusha—the capital of the Hittite empire that ruled north-central Turkey in ...

The Hittites lived in Anatolia some 3,500 years ago. They used clay tablets to keep records of state treaties and decrees, prayers, myths, and summoning rituals, using a language that researchers were ...

An excavation conducted at Boğazköy-Hattusha, a UNESCO heritage site in north-central Turkey around present-day Bolu or Gerede, unearthed the cuneiform writing. A recent excavation in Turkey has led ...

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Words from a "lost" language spoken more than 3,000 years ago have been discovered on an ancient clay tablet unearthed in Turkey. Archaeologists discovered the tablet earlier this year during ...