c. 18th–12th century BCE·Patriarchs·Person

The Hittites

Scripture: Genesis 23:10; 2 Samuel 11:3; 2 Kings 7:6

The Lion Gate at Hattusa, capital of the Hittite empire · Photo: Bernard Gagnon · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

The claim

The Bible mentions Hittites many times: Ephron the Hittite, Uriah the Hittite, and 'the kings of the Hittites'.

What archaeology found

From 1906 Hugo Winckler excavated Boğazköy in Turkey, revealing Hattusa, capital of a Hittite empire, with thousands of clay tablets. Bedřich Hrozný deciphered the Hittite language in 1915. After the empire fell (c. 1180 BCE), smaller 'Neo-Hittite' kingdoms in Syria continued, and Assyrian records call that region 'Hatti'.

Where it is

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Hattusa (Boğazkale), TurkeyView on OpenStreetMap

Sources

Trevor Bryce, The Kingdom of the Hittites, Oxford University Press (new ed.) (2005)

Verdict history

Nov 10, 2026SupportedInitial verdict.