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 Eksik Halka”). It can even be downloaded as a PDF free of charge: https://luwianstudies.academia.edu/EZangger. The book contains virtually all the texts and most of the illustrations that make up the German version of the website. People…

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 their initial three years in office. In their place three archaeologists joined the board.

Ivo Hajnal is Professor of Linguistics (since 2001) and Chairman of the Senate (since 2004) at the University of Innsbruck. He earned his habilitation as an…

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 Age presents a comprehensive analysis of the literature about the subjects outlined in its title. The author’s neutral perspective is refreshing – he does not adhere to any of the prevailing schools of thought. Hence, the ideas of the Dutch…

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 on 8 March at the Archeological Institute of Adnan Menderes University about the latest work at Luwian Studies. One of the topics covered were the documents from the estate of James Mellaart – the ones which are certainly forged, and…

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 submitted here. The conference will take place from 4–7 September in Bern in Switzerland. The session is entitled: “The political geography of western Anatolia in the LBA, and the region’s interaction with its neighbours, in particular the…

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 cultures of Western Asia Minor. Contributions are made to field-oriented as well as literature studies in archaeology and linguistics. The foundation aims to consider freelance scientists and university-based researchers at about the same extent. – These are the ongoing projects…

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 Woudhuizen has compiled in this book the information currently available about the Luwians in Western Asia Minor. He focuses on the epigraphic tradition in the form of currently available Luwian hieroglyphic inscriptions from this region and derives from these, as…

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 Luwians, inflated with much steam, has shrunk to the size of a wrinkled balloon.” A number of media – including Wikipedia authors – have adopted this opinion. They write, for example, that Mellaart’s documents were “an essential…

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 journalist Frank Thadeusz has published a scathing article about you in connection with James Mellaart’s forgeries, which you until recently considered genuine. What happened?

I think several factors came together. Firstly, journalists like to link what they write to a…

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 Missing Link in the Aegean Bronze Age”. The book, authored by Eberhard Zangger, was published in English in May 2016 and in German in October 2016, thus long before the now controversially discussed documents from James…