Add to ORKGTwenty-six texts found in the Hittite capital of Hattusa dating from the fifteenth–thirteenth centuries B.C.E. contain references to a land known as “Ahhiyawa,” which most scholars now identify with the Late Bronze Age Mycenaean world. The subject of continuing study and controversy since they were first published in 1924, the letters are still at the center of Mycenaean-Hittite studies and are now considered in studies and courses concerned with Troy, the Trojan War, and the role of both Mycenaeans and Hittites in that possible conflict. This volume offers, for the first time in a single source, English translations of all twenty-six Ahhiyawa texts and a commentary and brief exposition on each text’s historical implications. The volume als...
In 1916, the Czech scholar Bedřich Hrozný found the key to reading the clay tablets written in cunei...
A review of progress in the field of Hittite studies over the past thirty years, with particular att...
n this book the much-debated problem of political organization in Mycenaean Greece (ca. 1400-1200 BC...
The majority of scholars identify the long-disputed term Ahhiyawa found in the Hittite texts as Acha...
In this book the much-debated problem of political organization in Mycenaean Greece (ca. 1400-1200 B...
In 14th century BC, the Hittites became the supreme political and military power in the Near East. H...
Summary of recent developments in the study of the history of the Hittites of the Late Bronze and Ir...
There are two aspects about the Trojan War, the historical and the literary. For 1200 BC, the Late B...
The Hittites ruled a kingdom and then an empire in central Anatolia from the 17th to the 12th centur...
Systematic discussion of the use of Akkadian by the scribes of the Hittite kingdom of the Late Bronz...
Consideration of the texts of the Hittites of the Late Bronze Age that might be assigned to the epic...
The new chapter of Greek history: archaeologist and historian.--The hypothesis.--The question of dat...
T he connection may not seem obvious, but written sources are an integral part of the archaeological...
The Tawagalawa Letter (13th century BCE) is the most important source on diplomatic contacts between...
The focus of this article is the recently published, near-duplicate ARSUZ inscriptions carved on two...
In 1916, the Czech scholar Bedřich Hrozný found the key to reading the clay tablets written in cunei...
A review of progress in the field of Hittite studies over the past thirty years, with particular att...
n this book the much-debated problem of political organization in Mycenaean Greece (ca. 1400-1200 BC...
The majority of scholars identify the long-disputed term Ahhiyawa found in the Hittite texts as Acha...
In this book the much-debated problem of political organization in Mycenaean Greece (ca. 1400-1200 B...
In 14th century BC, the Hittites became the supreme political and military power in the Near East. H...
Summary of recent developments in the study of the history of the Hittites of the Late Bronze and Ir...
There are two aspects about the Trojan War, the historical and the literary. For 1200 BC, the Late B...
The Hittites ruled a kingdom and then an empire in central Anatolia from the 17th to the 12th centur...
Systematic discussion of the use of Akkadian by the scribes of the Hittite kingdom of the Late Bronz...
Consideration of the texts of the Hittites of the Late Bronze Age that might be assigned to the epic...
The new chapter of Greek history: archaeologist and historian.--The hypothesis.--The question of dat...
T he connection may not seem obvious, but written sources are an integral part of the archaeological...
The Tawagalawa Letter (13th century BCE) is the most important source on diplomatic contacts between...
The focus of this article is the recently published, near-duplicate ARSUZ inscriptions carved on two...
In 1916, the Czech scholar Bedřich Hrozný found the key to reading the clay tablets written in cunei...
A review of progress in the field of Hittite studies over the past thirty years, with particular att...
n this book the much-debated problem of political organization in Mycenaean Greece (ca. 1400-1200 BC...