Episode 232

I Hope This Tablet Finds You Well: It's a Hittite Episode!

This week we venture off to Bronze Age Anatolia to pay a visit to the Land of Hatti, and snoop through the royal mailbags.    

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Show notes:


The Hittites (The Met)

The Hittite Language and Its Decipherment (Bulletin of the Canadian Society for Mesopotamian Studies)

The Routledge Handbook of the Peoples and Places of Ancient Western Asia (via Google Books)

EA 041 Artifact Entry (Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative) 

The Amarna Letters 

Amarna the Place (AmarnaProject.com)

Replica of Peace Treaty between Hattusilis and Ramses II (United Nations)

The Treaty of Alliance between Ḫattušili, King of the Hittites, and the Pharaoh Ramesses II of Egypt (The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology) 

The Hittites' fast war chariots threatened mighty Egypt (National Geographic)

The Laws of the Hittites

The Hittites Serve Their Gods (Oxford Handbook of Ritual and Worship in the Hebrew Bible)

The Religion of the Hittites (Biblical Archaeologist)

Hittite Online (University of Texas at Austin Linguistics Research Center)

Luwian Scripts (LuwianStudies.org)

Excavation in Turkey Leads to the Discovery of Ancient Indo-European Language From Kalašma (Artnet)

Feb 2 online seminar: The Language of Kalašma: A New Branch of Anatolian (TORCH)

Famed Archaeologist 'Discovered' His Own Fakes at 9,000-Year-Old Settlement (LiveScience)

Arguments for the Authenticity of the Luwian Hieroglyphic Texts from the Mellaart Files (TALANTA)

The rise and fall of the Hittite state in Central Anatolia: How, when, where, did climate intervene? (La Cappadoce méridionale de la Préhistoire à l'époque byzantine)

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