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

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