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 ...

Archaeological research in the Middle East is revealing how a long-forgotten ancient civilisation used previously undiscovered linguistics to promote multiculturalism and political stability. 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 ...

Researchers are still studying the ancient text of an unknown language, written in cuneiform on a clay tablet. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This is a review article on Alwin Kloekhorst, Etymological Dictionary of the Hittite Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological ...

Students in Davidson College’s course in “Beginning Hittite” are learning an ancient language while alternately bending over computer keyboards and clay tablets. Cuneiform, a system of writing that ...

A NEWLY discovered clay tablet from 3,000 years ago has revealed a lost language that includes a ritual text from one of the most powerful ancient empires. It was excavated from Boğazköy-Hattuşa in ...

Harry Hoffner, one of the founders of the Chicago Hittite Dictionary and a leading expert on the ancient Near East, died suddenly on March 10 in South Carolina. He was 80. Hoffner, who retired in 2000 ...