This collection's central thesis is straightforward: long-distance communication plays a key role in the cohesion and stability of early states and in turn, the

This volume brings together the culmination of philological and linguistic work undertaken by a wide range of experts in the Anatolian languages. The research p

Hittite is the earliest attested Indo-European language and was the language of a state which flourished in Asia Minor in the second millennium BC. This excitin

The Ritual of Aštu, a text found at the Hittite Capital of Hattuša, shows strong influence from southern Anatolia and describes a Hurrian-Hittite ritual again

In The Composition and Tradition of Erimḫuš Kaira Boddy analyses the structure of the lexical list Erimḫuš and explains its role in Mesopotamian and Hitti