Since 2005, Eberhard Zangger, President of Luwian Studies, has been a regular speaker at the renowned Winterseminar on Biophysical Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Cybernetics of Cell Functions in Klosters. Established in 1966 by Nobel Laureate Manfred Eigen, the seminar has hosted more than 40 Nobel Prize winners over its distinguished history. On January 10, 2025, Zangger returned to the Winterseminar to deliver a one-hour lecture titled “Troy/Atlantis: 3207 Years After Its Demise.” Remarkably, this was the first time since his debut at the seminar 20 years ago that Zangger revisited this topic. The lecture highlighted the growing body of evidence gathered over the past three decades supporting Zangger’s theory that the legends of Troy and Atlantis represent memories of the same place. Zangger expanded the scope of his analysis to propose that Troy, Atlantis, the Luwians, the Sea Peoples and Scheria – the land of the Phaeacians in Homer’s Odyssey – all point to a singular Late Bronze Age culture or one of its major urban centers in what is now the western part of the Republic of Türkiye.
Lecture at Prestigious Winterseminar in Klosters
