Hittite cuneiform
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Hittite cuneiform is the form of cuneiform script used in writing the Hittite language. The surviving corpus of Hittite texts is preserved in cuneiform on clay tablets dating to the 2nd millennium BC.
Hittite cuneiform on a tablet
Hittites
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The Hittites were an Anatolian Indo-European people who formed one of the first major civilizations of the Bronze Age in West Asia. Possibly originating from beyond the Black Sea, they settled in nort
Hittite cuneiform
…Determinative Hittites Forrer, Emil (1922). Die Keilschrift von Boghazköi (in German). Leipzig: J.C. Hinrich…
Sphinx Gate entrance to the city
The Great Temple in the inner city of Hattusa
An Alaca Höyük bronze standard from a third millennium BC pre-Hittite tomb (Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, Ankara)
Ivory Hittite Sphinx, 18th century BC