The Hittite empire dominated the central plateau of Anatolia (the Asian portion of modern-day Turkey) from about 1800 BCE to 1200 BCE, and survived until about 700 BCE as a series of smaller kingdoms based in southern Turkey and northern Syria. During...

HITTITE RELIGION. The exact origin of the Hittites, an Indo-European people, is not known. Invading Asia Minor from the east, by the middle of the second millennium BCE they had established an empire covering the greater part of that region. Their...

The Hittites were an ancient people in Anatolia who spoke an Indo-European language, and established a kingdom centered at Hattusha (Hittite URUḪattuša) in north-central Anatolia from the 18th century BC. In the 14th century BC, the Hittite empire...

Hittite Prayers, by Itamar Singer. SBLWAW 11. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2002. Pp. xv + 141. $24.95 (paper). In keeping with the series mandate to provide up-to-date English translations of texts from the ancient Near East, Itamar Singer has prepared a volume...

Dancing was always an integral part of life for the inhabitants of Anatolia (modern Turkey) and some of the earliest known figural representations, dating to the aceramic Neolithic period (ca. 8000-6300 BCE), are of dance. In the Late Bronze Age, dance was no less...

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