Scientific Study Reveals: The Hittites Practiced an Advanced Hygiene Culture 3,000 Years Ago
Long before modern concepts of sanitation emerged, the Hittites appear to have developed a surprisingly structured and disciplined approach to cleanliness. A new scientific study demonstrates that hygiene in Hittite society was not a marginal habit, but a core element shaping daily life, religious practice, and social order in Late Bronze Age Anatolia. The research,