Introduction to Hittites & Chicago Hittite Dictionary by Theo van den Hout
I have excerpted this article from the “News and Notes” of the Oriental Institute Winter 2011 issue. Theo van den Hout gives an excellent overview of the Hittite Empire, its modern discovery, and the...
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Bronze Age Shipwreck
THE ULUBURUN SHIPWRECK (photo above: Copper bar from the shipwreck at Uluburun with typical bronze age-shape, photo by Martin Bahmann, Wikimedia Commons) Sometimes disaster brings the best rewards. So...
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Helpful, Harmful and Hallucinogenic Herbs of the Bronze Age
What were the Bronze Age equivalents of aspirin and Robitussin in about 1300 BCE? Close up of Hittite cuneiform writing on clay tablet © J. David Hawkins Wikimedia Commons My main character in Hand of...
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Birds in Clay: Hittite writing and scribes
This post appeared originally on The Word Nerds Blog. I made two especially delightful discoveries early on as I researched Hand of Fire, my novel set within the Trojan War. One was how much latitude...
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Minoan-Hittite Connection: When the Minoans Looked East
Laura Gill writes novels set in Mycenaean Greece and now, in her most recent book called Knossos, Minoan Crete. Click here to get to her books on Amazon. When we chatted about a guest post, I was not...
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Care and Feeding of the Gods: How Hittites & Trojans worshipped
Hittite goddess and child 15th to 13th century BC © PHGCOM Wikimedia Commons This post originally appeared on Amy Bruno’s Passages to the Past Blog We contemporary citizens of the world do not...
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Curing the Hittite Way: Analogical Magic and Powerful Words
Hittite Mother Goddess Figurine Like many ancient peoples, the Hittites of the Late Bronze Age (13thC BCE) in what is now modern Turkey, along with their semi-independent ally, Troy, believed that...
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Hittite Law of Adultery
Hattusa Museum cuneiform tablet The Hittites were a literate culture and we have found and translated many of their records and literary pieces. These libraries of clay tablets were written in the...
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Briseis Weds: Reconstructing Trojan/Hittite Wedding Rituals
My novel, Hand of Fire, set within the Trojan War has a key wedding early on. It isn’t going to be a happy wedding—the reader has plenty of foreboding about it. But for me as a writer, it had to be a...
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Propaganda and Reality: Hittites vs Pharaoh Ramesses
Getting to the truth in wartime has always been challenging. Governments save face and misrepresent their military strength and their moral rectitude as combatants. As a child, I remember the...
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Archaeology: Seal Leaves an Impression
Line drawing from actual seal impression of Hittite Queen Puduhepa, the inspiration for my Tesha Seals and their impressions on clay play an important role in my novel Priestess of Ishana. Seal...
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Beyond Letters: Royal Visits between Great Kings?
Great Kings Keep in Touch in Akkadian Akkadian letter found in Egypt at Amarna, wiki Fortunately for me as a writer of fiction set in the court of one of the great Bronze Age rulers, many ancient...
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A Hittite Bronze Helmet
Finding Bronze Armor Sapinuwa, Building A Across the ancient world, many of the surviving pieces of ancient bronze armor come from burials. However, the Hittite style of burial doesn’t provide...
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