Ebook: The Chariots of Ahhiyawa

Статья // DACIA (Revue D'Archéologie et D'Histoire Ancienne). — 2004-2005. — XLVIII-XLIX. — Pp. 151-160."The problem of identifying Ahhiyawa, its core, its geographical extent and its political organization thus remains. The point I wish to make in this article is that the military capacity of Ahhiyawa as indicated in the Hittite texts, as well as certain political and geographical characteristics, point towards a larger entity in the Aegean than anything that is attested in Linear В texts. Ahhiyawa appeared to the Hittites as a Kingdom that had to be taken seriously. Judging the amount of chariots and the military exploits of Ahhiyawa over the course of some 200 years, it seems that they had good reason to do so. If the Hittites did not question the importance of Ahhiyawa, why would we archaeologists do so?"