The Hittites ruled one of the great powers of the Bronze Age, controlling much of what is now Turkey and rivaling Egypt for influence across the eastern Mediterranean. In this fifth episode of Michael Wood's six-part series on the Trojan War, Wood turns to the clay tablets Hittite scribes left behind, archives that record treaties, royal correspondence, and disputes with neighboring kingdoms including one likely candidate for Homer's Troy. He reads the tablets not just for politics but for texture: marriage contracts, legal disputes, and religious rites that show how ordinary Hittites lived under an empire usually remembered only for its armies. Wood weighs what these documents can and cannot confirm about a war fought against the Greeks, treating the tablets as evidence to be tested rather than a text that simply proves Homer right. The episode sits inside a larger investigation asking how much of the Iliad reflects a real Bronze Age conflict, using the Hittite archive as the closest thing to a contemporary written record from the other side of that war.