Laura Spinney’s “Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global” explores the roots of language and how it spread and changed across time and place.

It is easy to lose sight of the timeline while concentrating on the differences between Hittites, Hattians and Hurrians, between Lydians and Luwians.

Steinkeller P., "The historical background of Urkesh and the Hurrian beginnings in northern Mesopotamia", In Buccellati G, Kelly-Buccellati M, eds. Mozan 3: Urkesh and the Hurrians Studies in Honor of ...

This region, once known as Mitanni (the Land of the Hurrians) and in the Hebrew Bible as Aram-Naharayim/Padan Aram, was inherited chiefly by the Kurds, possibly once known as the Cardochoi or Cyrtii ...

The city itself dates back at least 5,000 years, to the shadowy Hurrians. Later more familiar names in Diyarbakir’s roll call of history apppear - Assyrians, Persians, Alexander the Great and ...

Dragon Seed: The Hurrians, Dragon-slayer Myths and Traditions of Giants (2025) by Willem McLoud, is now available from Amazon. Top Image: Retjenu tribute bearers in the tomb of Sobekhotep, c. 1400 BC, ...