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The Joint Alumni Forum in Switzerland is an association of alumni of Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge, Stanford, Yale, and Columbia. The Forum organizes occasional lectures for

On May 15, 2015, the Luwian Studies Foundation unveiled its first comprehensive website available in English, Turkish, and German. At that time, news about the

The Foundation Luwian Studies announces the publication of a new article on The Ancient Near East Today, volume 13.1: “Processing Geospatial Data in Archaeology: Introducing

The Foundation Board of Luwian Studies is pleased to welcome Dr. Jörg Mull as a new member. Jörg Mull is eminently qualified for this task

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

After a fruitful visit to the archaeological park of Karatepe Aslantaş in Cilicia, a small delegation of Luwian Studies, consisting of Alper Aşınmaz, Kubilay Ahmet

The Luwian Studies Foundation has launched a new resource for scholars and the interested public: an interactive map and a comprehensive database of nearly 500

This year’s annual meeting of the European Society for Astronomy in Culture (SEAC) took place in Catania, Sicily, from November 13 to 15. The motto

The Luwian Studies Foundation’s lecture series, which began last year, came to a temporary conclusion on Wednesday, June 19, 2024, with a lecture by Dr.

Eberhard Zangger, founder and president of Luwian Studies, received his master’s degree and two awards at Harvard University’s annual graduation ceremony yesterday. Zangger graduated with

The Turkish popular scientific journal “Arkeoloji ve Sanat” (Archaeology and Art) has published an article by Eberhard Zangger and Serdal Mutlu which is a Turkish

For several months now, the Luwian Studies Foundation has been organizing a monthly soirée at its premises near Zurich’s Paradeplatz, to which only five to

The workshop “The Artificial Sky – Efficient Data Management in Cultural Astronomy” took place at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, November 1–3, 2023. The

The 30th conference of the European Society for Astronomy in Culture (SEAC) was held in Warsaw, Poland, September 6-9, 2023. “Between ancient and modern astronomy”

Turkish news agency Demirören reports that the world’s first “Cultural Center for Ancient Luwian Civilization” was opened by the Adana Municipality on June 21, 2023.

The President of the Luwian Studies Foundation, Dr. Eberhard Zangger, completed a lecture tour of Bulgaria from April 20 to 29, 2023. At the invitation

The main results of the comprehensive study of Middle and Late Bronze Age settlements in western Türkiye, published in August 2022, have been made available

Under the title “The Earth, the Sky and the Netherworld: Cosmology 3200 Years Ago,” Eberhard Zangger, president of the Luwian Studies foundation, gave a one-hour

Innsbruck linguist and Luwian Studies foundation board member Ivo Hajnal was awarded the Grand Medal of Honor in Silver for Services to the Republic of

Jörg Mull had already published a comprehensive book in German in 2017 on the various explanatory models for the end of the Bronze Age (“Mythen

The EAA proceedings which appeared today include a 140-page paper by Eberhard Zangger, Alper Aşınmaz and Serdal Mutlu entitled: “Middle and Late Bronze Age Western

Just in time for the start of this year’s EAA conference in Budapest, the volume containing the papers on the EAA session entitled “The Political

On September 2-3, 2022, after a two-year disruption due to the pandemic, the “13th Caria, Carians and Milas Symposium” will be held in Milas near

At ARTEFACTA 2022, the International Festival for Audio-visual Representations of Archaeology, Cultural History and Art, which took place in Dusseldorf from May 19 to 21,

The Yazılıkaya rock sanctuary near Hattusa is a special place in Hittite religion. Recently, an international team of researchers found out that this sanctuary, like

The protohistorian and linguist Frederik C. Woudhuizen, who passed away in September 2021, had stipulated that his extensive library on the archaeology and linguistic history

According to astronomical definition, the vernal equinox marks the beginning of spring north of the equator and the beginning of autumn south of it. The

The Luwians were the focus of a 75-minute online lecture given by Luwian Studies’ President Dr. Eberhard Zangger on March 10, 2022, in the framework

The lifework of archaeologist Frederik Woudhuizen, who died in September 2021, consists of 25 books and more than 100 scholarly articles. Woudhuizen has proposed decipherments

The field of Luwian studies has lost one of its most knowledgeable and prolific scholars: Frederik Christiaan Woudhuizen passed away on September 28, 2021. Fred

The European Society for Astronomy in Culture (SEAC) met Sept. 6–11, 2021 for their annual conference in Stara Zagora, Bulgaria, in the form of a

The most recent scientific publication on Yazılıkaya has received a great response in a short period of time. After less than a week, over 100,000

The publication of the latest article in JSA on cosmic symbolism in Yazılıkaya was accompanied by easy-to-understand summaries written by the scientists who contributed to

The Journal of Skyscape Archaeology (JSA) today published a major scientific article about cosmic symbolism at the Hittite rock sanctuary Yazılıkaya near Hattusa. Accordingly, the

The European Society for Astronomy in Culture (SEAC) published the proceedings of the SEAC 2018 Conference in Graz under the title “Harmony and Symmetry. Celestial

A year ago today, the last meeting of the board of Luwian Studies took place in Zurich in the form of a personal get-together. Scholars

It has come to the attention of the Luwian Studies foundation that some social media posts have expressed a belief that the Alevi religious community

“The Study of Antiquity and the Middle Ages” (SAMA) is a video interview channel on YouTube operated by Nick Barksdale from Oklahoma. Regardless of the

Dr. Tijmen Pronk from the Institute for Comparative Indo-European Linguistics at the University of Leiden gave a highly exciting lecture on “Indo-European, Anatolian and the

A one-hour video of a lecture of the research done by Eberhard Zangger and Rita Gautschy about the rock sanctuary Yazılıkaya is now also available

During Eberhard Zangger’s lecture tour in Türkiye in November 2019, a fortuitous meeting with Izzet Erten, the Turkish translator of Zangger’s (and various co-authors’) scientific

There is a last-minute venue change for Eberhard Zangger’s lecture, entitled “On the Trail of Lost Civilizations: Sun, Moon, and Gods in Hittites”, originally scheduled

At the invitation of Prof. Şengül Aydingün, Eberhard Zangger will speak about astral aspects of the Hittite religion on Wednesday, 20 November 2019 at 15:00

Luwian Studies goes on tour. On October 5, 2019, at ZAI Bodrum, Dr. Eberhard Zangger will lecture for one-hour on the Bronze Age cultures in

The all-day EAA session on Western Asia Minor in the Bronze Age on September 7, 2019 in Bern confirmed Aristotle’s statement that “the whole is

Did the English prehistorian James Mellaart (1925-2012) invent drawings of certain artefacts and allegedly Late Bronze Age documents? This question, open for more than half

The 12th Symposium on Caria, the Carians and ancient Mylasa took place on 23-24 August 2019 in Milas in western Türkiye. Twenty-one archaeologists working in

“The political geography of western Anatolia in the LBA, and the region’s interaction with its neighbours, in particular the Balkan” is the title of Session

The scientific publication of the new interpretation of the rock sanctuary Yazılıkaya has triggered a number of reports in international media. New Scientist online produced

The exceptional rock sanctuary Yazılıkaya, part of the Hittite capital Hattusa, contains all the elements required to operate a lunisolar calendar. The reliefs in its

The US-American actress Megan Fox is keen to get young people interested in the open questions of archaeology. She has therefore designed a television series

The book “The Luwian Culture – The Missing Link in the Aegean Bronze Age” has now been published in Turkish (“Luvi Uygarlığı. Ege’nin Bronz Çağındaki

The board of Luwian Studies has seen some changes. Professors Jan Philipp Reemtsma and Olaf Kübler have not renewed their mandates on the board after

Dr. Jörg Mull’s (German) book Myths and Metals – The Trojan War, the Sea Peoples and the Cultural Incision at the End of the Bronze

The Luwians were once again in the limelight during recent lectures in Aydın, Bodrum and Zurich. Professors Suat Ateşlier had invited Eberhard Zangger to speak

From now until 14 February 2019, proposals for presentations for Session #43 of the Annual Conference of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) can be

The foundation Luwian Studies will again support various research projects in 2019 which aim to increase the knowledge of the Middle and Late Bronze Age

In scholarly literature, there is much attention given to the Hittites and the Mycenaean Greeks, but the Luwians of Western Anatolia are notoriously neglected. Fred

The Spiegel article by Frank Thadeusz on the revelations found in James Mellaart’s former study says of Eberhard Zangger’s ideas that “his theory about the

For a long time the Spiegel editorial team gave the impression of enthusiastically and unreservedly supporting your theses about Troy and the Luwians. Now Spiegel

The editor-in-chief of the scholarly journal “Folia Orientalia”, the Polish linguist Professor Tomasz Polański, has just published a book review of “The Luwian Civilization –

The journalist writes: “‘He used the same approach for over 50 years,’ Zangger told Live Science. ‘He would first acquire a tremendously broad and deep

Last year, Luwian Studies received documents from the estate of British prehistorian James Mellaart for further investigation. Mellaart had identified these texts as being of

“How World War Zero wrecked three Bronze Age civilizations” – this is the title of a four-page article in the popular science journal New Scientist.

Despite a steep admission fee of eighty Swiss francs, the 140 seats in the NZZ Foyer were almost sold out, when the editor in chief

The scholarly publication of the longest Luwian hieroglyphic inscription from the Bronze Age is now available for free download. It was published online by Talanta

As soon as the Luwian hieroglyphic inscription from Beyköy appeared, people started raising the possibility that it might be a forgery. What led to this?

The rediscovery of the longest Luwian hieroglyphic inscription from the Bronze Age receives media attention throughout the world. Der Spiegel devotes three pages to the

In his new book, geoarchaeologist Eberhard Zangger portrays eight discoverers who since 1872 have explored the early history of Anatolia. In retrospect, these pioneers achieved

The book “Die Luwier und der Trojanische Krieg – eine Entdeckungsgeschichte” was published today by the Orell Füssli publishing house in Zurich, Switzerland. It shows

The conference Archeology and History of Lydia from the Early Lydian Period to Late Antiquity took place in Izmir on 17 and 18 May. Fred

Recent newspaper articles suggest that journalists tend to see your book favorably, while experts reject its main theses. How do you explain that? The journalists

Six months after the publication of “The Luwian Civilization”, the book is now also available in German. “Die luwische Kultur – Das fehlende Element in

The main premises of the foundation Luwian Studies is that up until now the study of Aegean prehistory suffered from a design flaw, because it

Luwian language and script will be the primary subjects of the first colloquium of the foundation Luwian Studies, which will be held on 3 November

The launch of the Luwian Studies’s website in English and German received much media attention around the globe: New Scientist, NZZ, Die Zeit, Popular Archaeology,

One year after the go-live of the Luwian Studies website in Turkish, the complete site is now also available in English and German. Following its

The foundation Luwian Studies today announced the go-live of its website in English and German as well as the publication of a book entitled “The

Another series of lectures about the Luwian civilization took place on invitation of the Universities of Aksaray, Kırşehir and Ankara Gazi from May 4 to

Professor Christian Marek, historian, epigraphist and author of the reference work History of Asia Minor in Antiquity, visited the team of Luwian Studies and said

Subsequently to the 11. International Kolloquium of the Heinrich Schliemann Society in September 2015, the proceedings just appeared. A 36-page article (written in German) summarizes

From March 7 to 10, Dr. Eberhard Zangger, President of Luwian Studies, gave a series of lectures about the Luwian civilization on invitation of Dokuz

On invitation of the Archaeological Society of Konya, Dr. Eberhard Zangger spoke today in front of 250 students and faculty members at Selçuk University in

The Luwian Studies website now features a 45-minute live video of a presentation given by Dr. Eberhard Zangger during a conference in January 2015. The

Pioneers in the archeology of Anatolia have always had a hard time. If it were not for Heinrich Schliemann, Hugo Winckler, Emil Forrer, Helmuth Bossert

Few objects in archaeology have been subject to as much controversy as the Phaistos Disc – a 15-cm-diameter disc made of fired clay in which

These days the memory of Troy is inseparably connected with the Iliad of the Greek poet Homer. However, numerous authors in antiquity and up until

In a lecture in Ankershagen, Germany, Dr. Eberhard Zangger, geoarchaeologist and president of the board of Luwian Studies, today described how modern Türkiye would benefit

We are back from fieldwork in Türkiye and bring many exciting results. Follow us now on Facebook – in Turkish.

The Turkish archaeological journal Olba today published an article which claims that the Bronze Age city of Troy has never been found. It lies 5

The international non-profit foundation Luwian Studies has turned on its extensive website – in Turkish – presenting a new perspective of the Aegean Bronze Age.

Researchers at the newly introduced foundation Luwian Studies have recorded 340 extensive settlement sites dating to the 2nd mill. BCE in western Asia Minor that