The Position of Anatolian 6.1 History of the Question 6.1.1 Discovery and Recognition Hrozný (1917) showed that the chief administrative language of the Hittite Empire, attested in cuneiform documents from Hattusha in central Turkey dating from the 16th-13th centuries BCE, was Indo-European. Through the work of a number of scholars it was known by the 1930s that Hittite was not alone in ancient...

Abstract This survey discusses a series of achievements in comparative Indo-Iranian studies, on the occasion appearance new representative volume. The presentation these aims to trace existing and directions scholarly co-operation between Vedists, Avestologists, specialists Achaemenid Sassanian as well as, more generally, Indo-Europeanists, philologists scholars history culture religions with a...