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Double-handed terracotta jar from Phrygia, in modern-day Turkey. 7th-6th century BCE. (Museum of Archaeology, Istanbul, Turkey).

Terracotta jar from Phrygia, in modern-day Turkey. 7th-6th century BCE. (Museum of Archaeology, Istanbul, Turkey).

This clay tablet describes the ceremony of the oath taken by the Hittite soldiers and the cursing of those who fail to keep the oath. 13th century BCE, from Hattusa (Bogazkoy), in modern-day Turkey. (Museum of Archaeology, Istanbul, Turkey...

This clay tablet refers to the gift given by the king Arnuwanda and queen Asmunikal. The gift was a group of slaves, animals, and land which were given to the priestess temple Kuatalla on her marriage. The tablet was signed (stamped) with...

In relating the wars waged by his father Suppiluliuma (Šuppiluliuma) I and the victories won, the Hittite king Mursili (Muršili) II mentions that after the death the Egyptian king Nibhururia (Tutankhamun), the queen Dahamunzu (Akhsenamun...

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 written in the mid-14th century BCE), from Hattusa...

The text inscribed on this clay tablet was the first document written in Hittite language. It is a copy of the original, written during the Hittite Imperial Period. Anitta was the son of Pithana and was a king of the city of Kussara (unidentified...

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...

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 and shed tears for him. I sent a messenger...

Ruined house, Casas Grandes or Paquimé, a major pre-Columbian city that flourished due to its extensive trading networks between c. 1150/1200-1450 CE in the northwest of present-day Chihuahua, Mexico.