Regarding the Notable & Quotable from Sen. John McCain on Gen. John Vessey (Aug. 23): Vessey is being, and should be, recognized for many good reasons, among them his unique approach to the problem of ...
A reconstruction of a painted fresco depicting the Battle of Kadesh between the Egyptian Empire and the Hittite Empire. Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images From around ...
WASHINGTON, Feb 8 (Reuters) - 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 ...
donkeys first bioweapons Infected rams and donkeys were the earliest bioweapons, according to a new study that dates the use of biological warfare back more than 3300 years. According to a review ...
The excavation of a mountain castle in central Turkey has revealed a secret tunnel, built by the Hittites around 4,000 years ago. Geval Castle, on Takkel Mountain in Central Anatolia, sits over 5,500 ...
An ancient city on the Turkey-Syria border, which was the most significant administration center of the Hittites who ruled over Anatolia and Mesopotamia for centuries, is gearing up to open for ...
Following his victory in Nubia, Ramses II turned west to subdue the Libyans, who had long troubled Egypt’s western borders. Accompanied by Queen Nefertari, Ramses crushed the Libyan tribes and ...
An ancient Middle-Eastern empire had already mastered the art of biological warfare almost 3,500 years ago, according to an Italian scientist. The Hittites of Anatolia, whose empire stretched from ...
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 Chicago ...