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 a four-year Master of Liberal Arts (ALM) in Extension Studies, field of Anthropology and Archaeology, and was awarded the ALM Dean’s List Certificate for Academic Achievement for his grade point average (3.97). He also won the Dean’s Prize for Outstanding…

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 summary of the paper “Middle and Late Bronze Age Western Asia Minor: A Status Report” published in 2022. It deals with questions such as: How was the region on the Anatolian side of the Aegean politically structured? Was it economically…

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 six guests are invited. The aim is to provide sponsors and friends of the Foundation with first-hand information on current developments in the study of Luwian culture and related communication activities at exclusive events in a personal atmosphere right where…

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 event was excellently organized by Susanne M. Hoffmann. Doris Vickers and Georg Zotti from Vienna assisted her. The Michael Stifel Center in Jena generously supported the event. Among the participants and speakers were such luminaries as Clive Ruggles, Hermann Hunger,…

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” was the main theme. The conference venue had been chosen to commemorate two important anniversaries of Nicolaus Copernicus: 550 years after his birth and 480 years after his death. For this reason, the conference participants took a full-day excursion to…

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. According to the press release, the life and culture of the Luwians (ca. 2200–700 BCE), one of the oldest population groups in Asia Minor, will be researched at the center and knowledge about them will be made available for future…

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 of Professor Maya Vassileva, he first gave lectures at the New Bulgarian University entitled “The Luwian Culture – The Missing Link in the Aegean Bronze Age” and “The Earth, the Sky and the Netherworld: Cosmology 3200 Years Ago.” The trip…

The main results of the comprehensive study of Middle and Late Bronze Age settlements in western Turkey, published in August 2022, have been made available to a wide audience in various popular science summaries. The Ancient Near East Today newsletter, read by over 42,000 subscribers, including many archaeologists, published an article entitled “Putting the Luwian culture on the map”. Shortly thereafter,

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 lecture on celestial aspects in Bronze Age Anatolia at this year’s Winterseminar in Klosters. The Winterseminar, which took place for the 56th time this year, was established in 1966 by the Göttingen bio- and physical chemist Prof. Manfred Eigen (1927–2019)…

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 Austria on December 14, 2022. The prestigious award was presented by the rector of the University of Innsbruck Tilmann Märk on behalf of the federal president. It recognizes Ivo Hajnal’s outstanding achievements in academia and his work as chairman of…