Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Hattusa

  • Hittite medicine

    Some 3,000 to 7,000 years BC there lived in southern Ukraine or perhaps northern Anatolia a people we now know as the Indo-Europeans.1,2 They were the ancestors of most of the linguistically related nations of Europe and Western Asia, and eventually they split into Eastern and Western groups. The latter comprised the Hittites, a now…