DISCOVERING THE HITTITES: THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF A VANISHED CIVILISATION
Course Director: Dr Christoph Bachhuber (University of Oxford)
This is a 5-day course to be held in person at UCL and livestreamed online; also available on video recording afterwards.
Fee:
£370 in person / £290 online
Details below and on our website:
www.egyptology-uk.com/bloomsbury/summer-school-programme-2025.htm#hittites-2025
Description:
The aim of this course is to introduce you to the culture, history, and civilisation of the Hittites, through a close examination of the archaeology, and overview of relevant scripts, texts, and languages. For reasons related to both ancient and modern historiography, the Hittites have been overshadowed by the civilisations of their contemporaries in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. This course will examine the origins of the Hittites, their cities in central Anatolia / modern Türkiye, and their expansion into an empire contemporary with, and in conflict with, New Kingdom Egypt and the Mycenaeans in the Aegean. We will journey through the cultic landscapes of the Hittites in the mountains of central Anatolia, and delve into the remarkable and diverse pantheon that bound them ideologically to both the landscapes of their home, and to the territories and people that they conquered. Finally, we will examine why the civilisation of the Hittites vanished so totally, such that Homer and Herodotus were not even aware of them.
Further details and to book:
www.egyptology-uk.com/bloomsbury/summer-school-programme-2025.htm#hittites-2025
Contact Kathryn:
Tel: +44 (0)779 155 8195
Email:
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You may also like the following events from Bloomsbury Summer School:
- Next Monday, 7th July, 11:00 am, READING HIEROGLYPHS: PHARAOH AND HIS FOLLOWERS in London
- Next month, 14th July, 11:00 am, PEOPLE, MATERIALS, AND TECHNOLOGY IN ANCIENT EGYPT: RESEARCH FROM URBAN AND DESERT LANDSCAPES in London
- This October, 2nd October, 05:30 pm, EXPLORING ANCIENT EGYPT AT TURIN’S MUSEO EGIZIO with Dr Luigi Prada in Turin
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