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Hugo Winckler

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Hugo Winckler , 1863-1913, German Orientalist. A professor at the Univ. of Berlin, Winckler was noted for his archaeological work. He helped to excavate the Phoenician city of Sidon. During excavations at Bogazköy in 1906-7 he discovered cuneiform tablets in Hittite (or Kanesian), a principal source for knowledge of the Hittites . The tablets represent the official archives of Hattusas, the capital of the Hittite empire, and detail foreign relations with the Egyptians, Babylonians, Cypriots, and Greeks c.1300 BC The tablets were deciphered in 1924 by the Czech scholar Friedrich... Read more
Boğazköy
...was the chief center of the Hittite empire (1400-1200 BC), which was consolidated by Shubbiluliuma (fl. 1380 BC). Hugo Winckler found there (1906-7) the principal Hittite inscriptions on 10,000 tablets; this discovery greatly added to the knowledge... Read more

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