Hittite cuneiform tablet in Istanbul Archaeological Museum. The archive of cuneiform clay tablets from Bogazkoy (ancient Hattusas) presents the only extant recorded material about the civilization of the Hittites, one of the most powerful political organisations of the Middle East during the 2nd millennium B.C. Hattusas the ancient capital of the Hittites, who established a powerful empire in Anatolia and northern Syria in the 2nd millennium BCE. Most of our knowledge relating to that period of history in Asia Minor and partially in the Middle East come from the cuneiform tablets found at Bogazkoy. This archive that totals up nearly 25, 000 tablets includes the records of social, political, commercial, military, religious, legislative and artistic lives of the era