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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The archaeological site at Turkey’s Boğazköy-Hattusha, the former capital of the Bronze Age Hittite empire, is a hotbed of ancient ...

In 763 BCE, within the vast and powerful Assyrian Empire centered around the city of Nineveh, a remarkable and somewhat eerie event occurred. On June 15, in the full light of day, the world ...

Starting around 3,000 years ago, a wave of innovation began to sweep through human societies around the globe. For the next millennium the continued emergence of new technologies had a dramatic effect ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Today, the ancient city of Hattusha—the capital of the Hittite empire that ruled north-central Turkey in ...