Hittites

The Hittite city of Sarissa is waiting to serve tourism. Located in the central Anatolian province of Sivas' Altınyayla district, the city dates back to 3,500-years.

The Sumerologist Veysel Donbaz speaks languages almost no one speaks today: Sumerian, Hittite, and two dialects of Akkadian, which are Assyrian and Babylonian.

Once a thriving and influential city in the late Bronze Age, the ancient city of Hattusha, which was also the capital of the Hittite Empire for 450 years, has been providing jobs to locals who help archaeologists unearth the history of their hometown. 

A Hittite village is under construction for the promotion of the archaeological site of Hattusha, which had been the Hittite capital for 450 years, in the central Anatolian province of Çorum's Boğazkale district. 

It was the day before International Women’s Day when I heard the news about the funeral of our Hittite Queen Puduhepa.

The first ever dam built in Anatolia, constructed by the Hittites in Çorum’s Alacahöyük some 3,300 years ago, will welcome visitors soon as environmental works and the facilities around the dam have been completed

I recently visited Çorum with a group of friends to see and to learn about the history of Anatolia. But this time I returned from Çorum, which I have visited countless times before, with sadness. 

Excavations at the Tayinat Mound in the southern Turkish province of Hatay have uncovered an ancient sculpture of a woman, around the same size as the statue of King Suppiluliuma previously discovered at the site.

The sculpture, which is made up of a head and body, is thought to date back to the late Hittite period in the 9th century B.C. 

The excavations that have been carried out in Karkamış, one of the world's most important ancient cities, lying along the borders of Turkey and Syria, have unearthed 250 kiln bullae (impression seals), for the first time this year. The bullae were used by top state officials in the Hittite Empire.

The Central Anatolian province of Çorum, which is home to the Hittite capital Hattusha and the ancient site of Alacahöyük, Turkey's first national excavation field, expects to host half a million tourists a year after work carried out by the Culture and Tourism Ministry and the Çorum Governor's Office is completed.