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Map of the Late Bronze Age Collapse and Transfromation
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Map of the Late Bronze Age Collapse and Transfromation - Interconnected political, economic & environmental breakdown

The Late Bronze Age Collapse and Transformation (c. 1250–1100 BCE) was a period of major political, economic, and social disruption across the Aegean...
Hittite relief of the God Sharruma and King Tudhaliya
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Hittite relief of the God Sharruma and King Tudhaliya

East wall of Chamber B of the Yazilikaya Hittite Rock Sanctuary near Hattusa (13th century BCE) depicting in a niche the God Sharruma (the Hurrian Mountain God and son of the Thunder God Teshub) embracing...
The Tablet of the Treaty between Suppiluliuma I and Hukkana
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The Tablet of the Treaty between Suppiluliuma I and Hukkana

This clay tablet mentions the details of the treaty between the Hittite king Suppiluliuma (Šuppiluliuma) I and the Haiasa (Haiaša) prince Hukkana. 13th century BCE (the tablet was originally...
Plague Prayers of Mursilis II
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Plague Prayers of Mursilis II

The Hittite king Muršiliš II is imploring the gods to end the plague which has infested his country since the time of his father, Arnuwanda II. 13th century BCE (the tablet was originally written in the second half...
Hattian Royal Tombs at Alacahöyük
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Hattian Royal Tombs at Alacahöyük

The Royal Tombs at Alacahöyük, built in the Early Bronze Age (2500-2000 BCE). Alacahöyük was the centre of the flourishing Hattian culture during the Bronze Age. It was later occupied by the Hittites who used the...
Hattusili III's Letter to Kadasman-Enlil II
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Hattusili III's Letter to Kadasman-Enlil II

This clay tablet represents a letter from Ḫattušili III (king of the Hittite Empire) to Kadašman-Enlil II (Kadashman-Enlil II; the Kassite king of Babylon). The beginning reads "I mourned for your father...
Treaty Establishing Hittite Domination over Aleppo
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Treaty Establishing Hittite Domination over Aleppo

This clay tablet is known as the "Aleppo Treaty". The treaty was drawn up between the Hittite king Mursili II and Talmi-sharruma (king of Aleppo). It was written in Akkadian, the diplomatic language...
Yazilikaya Hittite Rock Sanctuary
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Yazilikaya Hittite Rock Sanctuary

Yazılıkaya is a Hittite rock sanctuary located about 1.5 kilometres northeast of Hattusa, the capital city of the Hittite Empire in the late Bronze Age. It is the largest known Hittite rock monument. The sanctuary...
Ruins of Sapinuwa
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Ruins of Sapinuwa

Sapinuwa was an important Hittite military and religious centre (today Ortakoy in central Turkey). The city was established in a long valley between Alacahöyük and Hattusa, along the east-west trade route leading to Middle Anatolia...
Rock Relief with Procession of Hittite Deities at Yazilikaya
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Rock Relief with Procession of Hittite Deities at Yazilikaya

Rock relief in Chamber A of the Yazilikaya Hittite Sanctuary (13th century BCE) near Hattusa depicting a procession of male deities. They all wear shoes curling up at the toe, and many are armed...
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