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Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Archaeologists have recently discovered a previously unknown ancient language from an ancient tablet during excavations ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, archaeologists working at the Boğazköy-Hattusha site in Turkey, the ancient capital of the Hittite empire, have uncovered a new language inscribed on a tablet. This ...

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 ...

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 ...

When I was in college, I took a graduate-level seminar on the language of the Hittites, a Bronze Age people of Anatolia. I was interested in their highly archaic Indo-European argot, both the oldest ...

I. The enigma of their existence -- 1. Discovery and wild surmise -- Leander swan from Asia to Europe -- What was known about the Hittites in A.D. 1871 -- What is known today -- Asia Minor: A winter ...

We don’t know if the ancient Hittite word for tomato was “tomahto,” but when Hittites wanted water, they said “watar.” The Biblical-era conquerors, who ruled a vast swath of the Middle East from ...