Description: This volume collects 33 papers that were presented at the international conference held at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in November 2015 to celebrate the centenary of Bedřich Hrozný's identification of Hittite as an Indo-European language. Contributions are grouped into three sections, "Hrozný and His Discoveries," "Hittite and Indo-European," and "The Hittites and Their Neighbors," and span the full range of Hittite studies and related disciplines, from Anatolian and Indo-European linguistics and cuneiform philology to Ancient Near Eastern archaeology, history, and religion. The authors hail from 15 countries and include leading figures as well as emerging scholars in the fields of Hittitology, Indo-European, and Ancient Near Eastern studies.
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Ronald I. Kim, Ph.D. (2002), University of Pennsylvania, is Associate Professor in the Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań. He is author of over 60 articles, mainly on the historical grammar of Indo-European languages, and coeditor of Indo-European Linguistics (Brill).
Jana Mynářová, Ph.D. (2004), Charles University, Prague, is Associate Professor in the Czech Institute of Egyptology at that university. She specializes in the relations between Egypt and the Ancient Near East in the 2nd millennium BC and is author of Language of Amarna - Language of Diplomacy. Perspectives on the Amarna Letters (2007).
Peter Pavúk, Ph.D. (2006), Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, is Associate Professor of Classical Archaeology, Charles University, Prague. He has published several monographs and edited volumes, as well as articles on the Aegean and Anatolian Bronze Age, most notably on the site of Troy.