Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: he taught for forty-one years.One of the world's foremost scholars of Hittite and Luwian, the oldest-known Indo-European languages, his principal achievement was to lead the international effort to decipher Hieroglyphic Luwian, a language related to Hittite but written, not on clay in the cuneiform script that the Hittites imported from Mesopotamia, but on stone in seemingly impenetrable hieroglyphs.After preparatory school David attended Bradfield College in Berkshire and in 1958 went up to University College, Oxford, to read Greats.Academically he was attracted to archaeology and after graduating enrolled on the postgraduate diploma at the Institute of Archaeology in London.In those days the Institute of Archaeology's syllabus required students to study ancient languages.David's interest in the archaeology of Western Asia-Mesopotamia, Anatolia and the Levant-thus
Source: Iraq
DOI: 10.1017/irq.2025.1
Authors: Andrew George, Mark Weeden
Institution: University College London
Language: English
Topic: Ancient Near East History
Subfield: Archeology
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4412517328