Hittites
47 artifacts · 3000 BCE – 900 BCE · people (11) · architecture (10) · artifact (10) · spiritual (7) · battle (5) · art (4)
The Hittites forged an empire in Anatolia, known for its sophisticated legal systems and military prowess. The objects displayed here, from monumental architecture to intricate artifacts, tell the story of a civilization that shaped the ancient Near East through diplomacy, warfare, and cultural exchange.
The Collection
- Troy — 3000 BC · architecture
- Kubaba — Bronze Age · spiritual
- Alacahöyük — Bronze Age · architecture
- Hittite Sun Disk (Alacahöyük) — Bronze Age · artifact
- Anitta Text — Bronze Age · artifact
- Labarrna I — Bronze Age · people
- Hattusa — 1650 BCE · architecture
- Hittite Law Code — Bronze Age · artifact
- Hittite Pantheon (Thousand Gods) — Bronze Age · spiritual
- Arinna (Sun Goddess) — Bronze Age · spiritual
- Sack of Babylon (Hittites) — Ancient · battle
- Telepinu (King) — Bronze Age · people
- Telepinu Myth Tablet — Bronze Age · artifact
- Telepinu (god of agriculture) — Bronze Age · spiritual
- Illuyankas Myth — Bronze Age · spiritual
- Lion Gate, Hattusa — Ancient · architecture
- Lion Gate, Hattusa — Bronze Age · architecture
- Great Temple of Hattusa — Bronze Age · architecture
- Sphinx Gate of Alacahöyük — Bronze Age · architecture
- Arnuwanda I — Bronze Age · people
- Hittite Iron Dagger — Bronze Age · artifact
- Hittite Clay Tablets (Hattusa Archive) — Bronze Age · artifact
- Stele of the Storm God — Bronze Age · artifact
- Hittite Silver Rhyton — Bronze Age · artifact
- Hittite Warrior God Relief — Bronze Age · art
- Hittite Sphinx of Hattusa — Bronze Age · art
- Hittite Stag Statuette — Bronze Age · art
- Teshub — Bronze Age · spiritual
- Shaushka (Hittite Ishtar) — Bronze Age · spiritual
- Suppiluliuma I — Ancient · people
- Suppiluliuma I — Bronze Age · people
- Hittite Conquest of Mitanni — Bronze Age · battle
- Yazılıkaya — 1300 BCE · architecture
- Muwatalli II — 1300 BCE · people
- Muwatalli II — Bronze Age · people
- Battle of Kadesh — Bronze Age · battle
- Hattusili III — Ancient · people
- Hattusili III — Bronze Age · people
- Puduhepa — Bronze Age · people
- Treaty of Kadesh — Ancient · artifact
- Treaty of Kadesh — Bronze Age · artifact
- Yazılıkaya — Bronze Age · architecture
- Tudhaliya IV — Bronze Age · people
- Carchemish — Bronze Age · architecture
- Siege of Ugarit (Sea Peoples) — Bronze Age · battle
- Fall of Hattusa — Bronze Age · battle
- Hittite Orthostats of Zincirli — Iron Age · art