The state of the Hittites, a people who once came to Asia Minor, arose in the 18th-16th centuries BC. e. It gained strength very quickly. The aliens defeated Babylon, defeated the state of Mitanni, and even threatened Egypt, the most powerful power of the Ancient World. The Hittites are mentioned in the Bible, but strangely, the annals of the Ancient World pass over the history of this people in silence. Only at the beginning of the 20th century did archaeologists find traces of this mysterious power in Turkey. From deciphered cuneiform texts it is known that the Hittites built 1,600 cities on the Anatolian Plateau. Over the past hundred years, less than a dozen of their ruins have been found. Although there is no complete history of this vanished kingdom yet, the most important thing has happened: the strongholds of the vanished state have been found, the writings of the Hittites have been read, and an idea of their art and culture has already been formed. The book by A. Volkov and N. Nepomnyashchy tells how the mysterious lands of the Hittites are little- little by little they revealed their treasures to scientists, just as the mysterious people of antiquity revealed themselves to the modern world.