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A Remarkable Newly Deciphered Hittite Tablet Sheds New Light on the Trojan War
A Remarkable Newly Deciphered Hittite Tablet Sheds New Light on The Trojan War. The Hittites, creators of invaluable written...
The Hittites, creators of invaluable written records from the Anatolian Bronze Age, have gifted us thousands of cuneiform tablets unearthed at sites like their capital, Hattusa (modern Boğazköy, Çorum). Deciphered under the direction of Michele Bianconi of Oxford University and recently published as “Keilfischurkunden aus Boghazköi 24.1,” this tablet presents one of the most compelling written links between Bronze Age Anatolia and the epic tradition culminating in Homer’s Iliad. It not only reinforces the geopolitical dynamics of the Late Bronze Age but also offers an unprecedented literary fragment, hinting at a local Luwian poetic tradition about the fall of Troy, predating Homer by centuries.
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