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This bronze figurine was shaped like Mesopotamian foundation figurines. The figure wears the tall headdress of a Hittite god. From South-Eastern Anatolia, in modern-day Turkey. Old Hittite period, c. 1600 BCE. (The British Museum, London).

The Hayasa-Azzi were an indigenous Bronze Age tribal confederation which flourished on the plateau of ancient Armenia and eastern Anatolia between c. 1500 and c. 1200 BCE. Although the historical record is impoverished and disputed regarding...

Zarathustra (also given as Zoroaster, Zartosht, Zarathustra Spitama, l. c. 1500-1000 BCE) was the Persian priest-turned-prophet who founded the religion of Zoroastrianism (also given as Mazdayasna “devotion to Mazda”), the first monotheistic...

Lycia is a mountainous region in south-west Anatolia (also known as Asia Minor, modern-day Turkey). The earliest references to Lycia can be traced through Hittite texts to sometime before 1200 BCE, where it is known as the Lukka Lands. The...

Seated Hittite Goddess with Child, c. 14th-13th century BCE, from Central Anatolia, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Relief orthostat (stone slab at the base of a wall) depicting two winged griffin demons, depicted as bird-headed with a human body. From Carchemish, Turkey. Dated to the Late Hittite period, 9-7th century BCE. Museum of Anatolian Civilization...

A map of the Hittite Empire and surrounding states, including the Assyrian Empire, the Egyptian Empire, and Ahhiyawa. This map is an extract from the book Empires of Bronze by Gordon Doherty, republished with permission.

The Hittite Empire at its maximum extension c. 1300 BCE (indicated in red. The Eyptian area of influence is indicated in green).

Relief orthostat (stone slab at base of wall) of war chariot from Sam'al (Turkey), west side of citadel gate; Basalt; Late Hittite period (9th cent BCE); Museum of the Ancient Orient, Istanbul Archaeological Museums.

This tablet's text is one of the latest versions of the Hittite laws text. In spite of some modifications (for example from the 16th century BCE versions), the articles of these two versions run parallel to each other. One of the articles...