Research Means Looking at Things from a New Perspective Speaking Luwian Today Scripts Are Related Science in Transition How Does Decipherment Work? The Generalists 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 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? Dont 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
