255 pp, color figures, pb, in Turkish.
Research Means Looking at Things from a New Perspective
- Speaking Luwian Today
- Scripts Are Related
- Science in Transition
How Does Decipherment Work?
- The Generalist’s Approach
- Combining an Internal and an External Approach
- Why Decipherings Are Needed
- Talking about Methods
- Schools of Thought
- Understanding Linear A
- The Notorious Phaistos Disc
- Arthur Evans Caused Some Harm
Waves of Indo-Europeanization across the Mediterranean
- All Emerged from the Steppe
- It All Began 5000 Years Ago
- Another Wave of Indo-European Speakers
- Of Indo-Aryans and Hyksos
- Minoan Crete Was Multiethnic
- Immigrants Tended to Be Hostile
- How the Languages Arrived
The Earliest Cretan Scripts
- How the Script Came to Crete
- Linearizing Hieroglyphs
- Cretan Hieroglyphic and the Phaistos Disc
- Looking across the Border
- Let Atlantis Rest
The Lasting Success of Luwian Hieroglyphic
- Two Forms of Luwian
- Step by Step towards a Decipherment
- Why Not Read Luwian?
- Some Signs Are Polyphonic
- No Sign for i Anymore
- Recent Finds – Questionable and Unquestionable Ones
- Yet More Inscriptions Appear
Byblos Needs Its Own Script
- The Byblos Script
- What the Documents Say
- The Road to Decipherment
A Cypriot Admiral Calls for Help
- Different Approaches
- All about Business
- Hittite Ambitions
- A Spectacular Discovery
Origin and Motives of the Sea Peoples
- How the Situation Evolved
- Famines in Anatolia
- Where Was Haunebut?
- Weshesh, Sherden, Shekelesh – and All the Rest of It
- What Fred Thinks Happened
- Some Discrepancies
- What Eberhard Thinks Happened
The Etruscans Came from Asia Minor
- Connections with Anatolian Languages
- The Pyrgi Tablets
- A Whole Book: The Liber Linteus
- The Enigmatic Lemnos Stele
- Where Do We Go from Here?
- Don’t Forget the Rhaetians!
- What Are the Consequences?
Other Luwian Dialects, Such as Lydian, Lycian and Carian
- Lycian Can Be Read and Understood
- Three Signs in Lydian Should Be Corrected
- Sidetic Contains Signs from Cypriot Script
- Carian Has Not Been Deciphered Correctly
- Southwest Iberian Is Celtic
- The Alphabet Becomes Semi-Syllabic
- They Spoke Celtic, What Else!
- The King Is Named after the Silver
- Phoenician Port Towns Were Not Harmed
- The Celts Enter Iberia
- Iberia as a Sideshow
- A Dedication to Reinforce a Bilateral Treaty
Etymology or No Etymology – That Is the Question
Appendix
- Endnotes
- Further Reading
- Picture Credits
- Index
- About the Authors
