Alle mooie woorden blijken leugens? Waar is onze inspraak nu? Waarom krimp wetenschappelijk personeel van 20% en ondersteunend personeel van 10%? Die twee waren toch gekoppeld? Is dit nu solidariteit tussen bestuurders en bestuuurden? #WOinActie mareonline.nl/nieuws/144-ban…

This afternoon I’ll be giving a lecture at the Assyriology / Hittitology department at the LMU Munich. If you’re around, please join! assyriologie.uni-muenchen.de/aktuelles/koll…

LCANE Spring seminar series is on the #Hittites. Details and abstracts here: lcane.org.uk/events/

Het komend uur ben ik te horen op de radio bij sleutelstadnl !

Hocam Prof. Dr. İlknur Taş ile birlikte yayına hazırladığımız ve Sakin Kitap dan çıkan, Hitit Kralı IV. Tuthaliya'nın Çocukluk yıllarının anlatıldığı öykü kitabımız, çocuklar ve gençlerin bir Anadolu İmparatorluğu olan Hititleri anlatmayı amaçlanmıştır.

Geweldig nieuws / great news! Dr Willemijn Waal is awarded the major “VICI” grant —the largest personal research grant in the Netherlands— by NWO Nieuws for her exciting research on the earliest Greek alphabet and its antecedents! (Cc Bart Funnekotter : je schreef hierover!)

LECTURE: Yağmur Heffron “When Kanešean History Failed to Turn: Socio-political change and the end of  Bronze Age occupation at Kültepe” Monday March 10th, 6.15pm UK-time, online participation should be possible: eventbrite.co.uk/e/lcane-semina…, abstracts: lcane.org.uk/events/

New book by J. P. Mallory on Indo-Europeans: "The Indo-Europeans Rediscovered: How a Scientific Revolution is Rewriting Their Story" Forthcoming: May 27th, 2025 thamesandhudsonusa.com/books/the-indo…

The Hittite Empire transformed the world—and then the world forgot it nationalgeographic.com/history/articl…

Who needs a computer when you’ve got a clay tablet? 😄 Thousands of years ago, these were the original data storage devices—from laws to love, omens to official treaties, clay tablets were the go-to medium for all things important. At the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations in

New paper! I argue that a song in the archaic Luwian dialect of Ištanuwa can be subjected to metrical analysis. If I am correct, this song is one of the earliest instances of Indo-European poetry. The paper is published with open access; see: degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/1…

3300-Year-Old Hittite Bracelet Discovered by Farmer Now on Display at Çorum Museum ancientist.com/2025/05/30/330…

Books: Indo-Slavic Lexical Isoglosses and the Prehistoric Dispersal of Indo-Iranian: Palmér (2025): During the past decade, the ancient DNA revolution has had a massive impact on the scholarly debates on the origins and dispersals of language families.… dlvr.it/TL7MgQ