Dirk Paul Mielke is a pre- and proto-historian and Ancient Near Eastern archaeologist researching and teaching at the Freie Universität Berlin and at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...Starting out from their homeland in Anatolia, the Hittites established not only an important Ancient Near Eastern empire in the second millennium BCE but also created an idiosyncratic culture. The homeland of the Hittites, the ‘Land...