Publications

Zangger, Eberhard, Daniel Sarlo, and Fabienne Haas Dante. 2025. “The Earliest Cosmological Depictions: Reconsidering the Imagery on the ˁAin Samiya Goblet.” JEOL – Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society ‘Ex Oriente Lux’ 49: 49–84. DOI

Zangger, Eberhard, Daniel Sarlo, and Fabienne Haas Dante. 2025. “Lifting the Sky: The Cosmic Program on the ˁAin Samiya Goblet.” The Ancient Near East Today 13 (11). anetoday.org

Zangger, Eberhard, E. C. Krupp, Serkan Demirel, and Rita Gautschy. 2023. “The Perennial Cycles of the Universe as Symbolized in Hittite Yazılıkaya.” In Cultural Astronomy & Ancient Skywatching – Proceedings of the 28th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Astronomy in Culture (SEAC), 6-10 September 2021, Stara Zagora, Bulgaria, 2023, edited by Penka Maglova and Alexey Stoev. DOI

Zangger, Eberhard, and Serkan Demirel. 2023. “Hitit Kaya Tapınağı Yazılıkaya’da Kozmos’un Sembolik Temsili.” In Cultural Astronomy & Ancient Skywatching – Proceedings of the 28th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Astronomy in Culture (SEAC), 6-10 September 2021, Stara Zagora, Bulgaria, 2023, edited by Penka Maglova and Alexey Stoev. DOI

Zangger, Eberhard, and E. C. Krupp. 2021. “The Symbolic Representation of the Cosmos in the Hittite Rock Sanctuary of Yazılıkaya.” The Ancient Near East Today. anetoday.org

Zangger, Eberhard. 2021. “A Symbolic Image of the Cosmos: The Hittite Rock Sanctuary at Yazılıkaya.” Popular Archeology. popular-archaeology.com

Zangger, Eberhard, E. C. Krupp, Serkan Demirel, and Rita Gautschy. 2021. “Celestial Aspects of Hittite Religion, Part 2: Cosmic Symbolism at Yazılıkaya.” Journal of Skyscape Archaeology 7 (1): 57–94. DOI

Zangger, Eberhard, and Rita Gautschy. 2020. “A Calendar in Stone: Hittite Yazılıkaya.” The Ancient Near East Today 8 (5). anetoday.org

Zangger, Eberhard, and Rita Gautschy. 2020. “The Hittite Rock Sanctuary of Yazılıkaya: A Time-Keeping Device from c. 1230 B.C.” In Harmony and Symmetry – Celestial Regularities Shaping Human Culture. Proceedings of the SEAC 2018 Conference in Graz, edited by Sonja Draxler, Max E. Lippitsch, and Gudrun Wolfschmidt. Tredition. DOI

Zangger, Eberhard, and Rita Gautschy. 2019. “Celestial Aspects of Hittite Religion: An Investigation of the Rock Sanctuary Yazılıkaya.” Journal of Skyscape Archaeology 5 (1): 5–38. DOI

Zangger, Eberhard. 2025. “Creation Myths and Cosmological Concepts in the Ancient Near East: From Uruk via Hattusa to Athens.” In Megalithic Monuments and Cult Practices – Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium Blagoevgrad, 10–14 October 2024, edited by Dimitriya Spasova, vol. 2. Neofit Rilski University Press. DOI

Zangger, Eberhard. 1999. Atlantis Troya’dır. Istanbul: Pan Yayıncılık. PDF

Zangger, Eberhard. 1998. “Das Atlantis=Troja-Konzept. Auf den Spuren einer versunkenen Kultur in Westkleinasien.” Vierteljahrsschrift der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Zürich 143 (1): 13‒23. DOI

Zangger, Eberhard. 1993. “Plato’s Atlantis Account: A Distorted Recollection of the Trojan War.” Oxford Journal of Archaeology 18 (1): 77‒87. DOI

Zangger, Eberhard. 1992. The Flood from Heaven – Deciphering the Atlantis Legend. New York: William Morrow & Co. PDF

Zangger, Eberhard, and Celıl Denktaş. 2022. “The Luwians against Eurocentrism: An interview with Dr. Eberhard Zangger.” Bizim Gazete, issue of October 27, 2022. PDF  haber.sol.org.tr (Turkish version)

Zangger, Eberhard. 2017. Die Luwier und der Trojanische Krieg – Eine Entdeckungsgeschichte. Zurich: Orell Füssli. DOI

Zangger, Eberhard. 2016. The Luwian Civilization – The Missing Link in the Aegean Bronze Age. Istanbul: Ege Yayınları.

Zangger, Eberhard. 1999. “Archäologie im 21. Jahrhundert – Zeitreise mit Panne?” In Visionen 2000. Brockhaus.

Aşınmaz, Alper, Serdal Mutlu, and Eberhard Zangger. 2025. “An Interoperable Catalogue of Middle and Late Bronze Age Settlements in Western Anatolia (c. 2000–1200 BCE).” Nature Scientific Data 12 (1804). DOI

Zangger, Eberhard, and Serdal Mutlu. 2023. “Putting the Luwian Culture on the Map.” The Ancient Near East Today 11 (1). anetoday.org

Zangger, Eberhard, Alper Aşınmaz, and Serdal Mutlu. 2022. “Middle and Late Bronze Age Western Asia Minor: A Status Report.” In The Political Geography of Western Anatolia in the Late Bronze Age, edited by Ivo Hajnal, Eberhard Zangger, and Jorrit M. Kelder, vol. 45. Archaeolingua Series Minor. Archaeolingua. DOI

Hajnal, Ivo, Eberhard Zangger, and Jorrit M. Kelder, eds. 2022. The Political Geography of Western Anatolia in the Late Bronze Age. Archaeolingua Series Minor. Archaeolingua. DOI

Zangger, Eberhard. 2022. “Ancient Troy and Its Neighbors: Acknowledging the Luwian Culture at Last.” Popular Archaeology, October. popular-archaeology.com

Zangger, Eberhard. 2016. The Luwian Civilization – The Missing Link in the Aegean Bronze Age. Istanbul: Ege Yayınları. DOI

Zangger, Eberhard, Serdal Mutlu, and Fabian Müller. 2016. “Die Luwier: Bindeglied zwischen Mykenern und Hethitern.” Mitteilungen aus dem Heinrich-Schliemann-Museum Ankershagen 10/11: 53–89. DOI

Woudhuizen, Frederik Christiaan, and Eberhard Zangger. 2021. Conversations about Space and Time: Early Mediterranean Scripts. Istanbul: Ege Yayınları. DOI

Zangger, Eberhard, and Fred Woudhuizen. 2018. “Rediscovered Luwian Hieroglyphic Inscriptions from Western Asia Minor.” Talanta – Proceedings of the Dutch Archaeological and Historical Society 50: 9–56. DOI

Woudhuizen, Frederik Christiaan, and Eberhard Zangger. 2018. “Arguments for the authenticity of the Luwian Hieroglyphic Texts from the Mellaart Files.” Talanta – Proceedings of the Dutch Archaeological and Historical Society 50: 183–212. DOI

Zangger, Eberhard. 1995. “Who Were the Sea People?” Aramco World, no. May/June: 21‒31. DOI

Zangger, Eberhard. 2019. “James Mellaart: Pioneer … and Forger.” Popular Archaeology, Fall 2019. popular-archaeology.com

Zangger, Eberhard. 2018. “James Mellaart’s Fantasies.” Talanta – Proceedings of the Dutch Archaeological and Historical Society 50: 125–82. DOI

Zangger, Eberhard. 1991. “Prehistoric Coastal Environments in Greece: The Vanished Landscapes of Dimini Bay and Lake Lerna.” Journal of Field Archaeology 18 (1): 1‒15. DOI

Zangger, Eberhard. 1993. The Geoarchaeology of the Argolid. Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Athen. Berlin: Gebrüder Mann Verlag. DOI

Finke, Eberhard, and Heinz Malz. 1988. “Der Lernäische See: Auswertung von Satellitenbildern und Ostracodenfaunen zur Rekonstruktion eines vergangenen Lebensraumes.” Natur und Museum 118 (7): 213‒222. PDF

Wells, Berit, Curtis Runnels, and Eberhard Zangger. 1993. “In the Shadow of Mycenae.” Archaeology 46 (1): 54‒58. PDF

Zangger, Eberhard. 1994. “Landscape Changes around Tiryns during the Bronze Age.” American Journal of Archeology 98 (2): 189‒212. DOI

Zangger, Eberhard. 1991. “Tiryns Unterstadt.” In Archaeometry ’90, edited by Ernst Pernicka and Günther Wagner. Birkhäuser Verlag. PDF

Wells, Berit, Curtis Runnels, and Eberhard Zangger. 1990. “The Berbati-Limnes Archaeological Survey – The 1988 Season.“ Opuscula Atheniensia 18 (15): 207‒238. DOI

Zangger, Eberhard. 1994. “The Island of Asine: A Palaeogeographic Reconstruction.” Opuscula Atheniensia 20 (15): 221‒239. DOI

Zangger, Eberhard. 2008. “The Port of Nestor.” In From Homer’s Sandy Pylos to the Battle of Navarino: An Archaeological Survey, edited by Jack L. Davis. Texas University Press. PDF

Zangger, Eberhard. 1998. “The Environmental Setting.” In From Homer’s Sandy Pylos to the Battle of Navarino: An Archaeological Survey, edited by Jack L. Davis. Texas University Press. PDF

Zangger, Eberhard, Sergei B. Yazvenko, Michael E. Timpson, Falko Kuhnke, and Jost Knauss. 1997. “The Pylos Regional Archaeological Project, Part 2: Landscape Evolution and Site Preservation.” Hesperia 66 (4): 549‒641. DOI

Zangger, Eberhard. 1997. “An Artificial Port in Mycenaean Greece.” American Journal of Archaeology 101 (2): 378. PDF

Munn, Mark H., Mary Lou Zimmermann Munn, A. C. Brumfield, and Eberhard Zangger. 1991. “The Cultural Ecology of the Attic-Boiotian Frontier: Preliminary Results of the Stanford Skourta Plain Project, 1985–1990.” American Journal of Archaeology 95: 332. PDF

Watrous, L. Vance, and Eberhard Zangger. 2012. “The Region.” In An Archaeological Survey of the Gournia Landscape: A Regional History of the Mirabello Bay, Crete, in Antiquity, edited by L. Vance Watrous, Donald Haggis, Krzysztof Nowicki, Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan, and Maryanne Schultz. Prehistory Monographs 37. INSTAP Academic Press. PDF

Watrous, L. Vance, Harriet Blitzer, Donald Haggis, and Eberhard Zangger. 2000. “Economy and Society in the Gournia Region of Crete. A Preliminary Report on the 1992-1994 Field Seasons of the Gournia Project.” In Πεπραγμενα H. διεθνους Κρητολογικου Συνεδριου: Ηρακλειο, 9-14 Σεπτεμβριου 1996, vol. 3. Hetairia Krētikōn historikōn Meletōn. PDF

Zangger, Eberhard, and Serdal Mutlu. 2015. “Artificial Ports and Water Engineering at Troy: A Geoarchaeological Working Hypothesis.” Olba – Mersin Üniversitesi Kilikia Arkeolojisini Araştırma Merkezi Yayınları 23: 553–89. DOI

Zangger, Eberhard. 2003. “Some Open Questions About the Plain of Troia.” In Troia and the Troad: Scientific Approaches, edited by Günther A. Wagner, Ernst Pernicka, and Hans-Peter Uerpmann. Springer. DOI

Zangger, Eberhard, Michael Timpson, Sergei Yazvenko, and Horst Leiermann. 1998. “Searching for the Ports of Troy.” In Environmental Reconstruction in Mediterranean Landscape Archaeology, edited by Philippe Leveau, Kevin Walsh, and Graeme Barker, vol. 2. Oxbow. DOI

Zangger, Eberhard, Horst Leiermann, Wolfgang Noack, and Falko Kuhnke. 1997. “A 21st Century Approach to the Reconnaissance and Reconstruction of Archaeological Landscapes.” In Aegean Strategies: Studies of Culture and Environment on the European Fringe, edited by P. Nick Kardulias and Mark T. Shutes. Rowman and Littlefield. DOI

Zangger, Eberhard. 1994. Ein neuer Kampf um Troia – Archäologie in der Krise. Munich: Droemer Verlag. DOI

Knapp, A. Bernard, Steve O. Held, Eberhard Zangger, and Ian Johnson. 1992. “The Sydney Cyprus Survey Report (SCSP) – First Preliminary Season (1992).” Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus, 319‒336. PDF

Zangger, Eberhard. 1995. “Geology and the Development of the Cultural Landscape.” In Africa Proconsularis – Regional Studies in the Segermes Valley of Northern Tunisia, edited by Søren Dietz, Laila Ladjimi Sebai, and Habib Ben Hassen, The Carlsberg Foundation and The Danish Research Council for the Humanities. PDF

Bard, Kathryn A., Abdel-Moneim Mahmoud, Arlene M. Rosen, and Eberhard Zangger. 1992. “Preliminary Report: The 1991 Boston University Excavations at Halfiah Gibli and Semaineh, upper Egypt.” Newsletter of the American Research Center in Egypt 158/159: 11–15. PDF

Zangger, Eberhard. 1995. “Systematische Landschaftskontrolle im antiken Griechenland.” In Spektrum der Wissenschaft, May ’95: 140–143. PDF

Zangger, Eberhard. 1992. “Prehistoric and Historic Soils in Greece: Assessing the Natural Resources for Agriculture.” In Agriculture in Ancient Greece, edited by Berit Wells, vols. 4, XLII. Skrifter Utgivna Av Svenska Institutet i Athen. Paul Aström. DOI

Zangger, Eberhard. 1992. “Neolithic to Present Soil Erosion in Greece.” In Past and Present Soil Erosion, edited by Martin Bell and John Boardman. Oxford: Oxbow Books. DOI

van Andel, Tjeerd H., Eberhard Zangger, and Anna Demitrack. 1990. “Land Use and Soil Erosion in Prehistoric and Historical Greece.” Journal of Field Archaeology 17 (4): 379–396. DOI

van Andel, Tjeerd H., and Eberhard Zangger. 1990. “Landscape stability and destabilisation in the prehistory of Greece.“ In Man’s Role in the Shaping of the Eastern Mediterranean Landscape, edited by S. Bottema, G. Entjes-Nieborg, and W. van Zeist. Balkema. DOI

Zangger, Eberhard. 1996. “Prehistoric Earthquakes and Their Consequences, as Preserved in Holocene Sediments from Volos and Argos, Greece.” In Archaeoseismology, edited by Stathis Stiros and Richard E. Jones. British School at Athens. DOI

Zangger, Eberhard. 1998. “Naturkatastrophen in der Ägäischen Bronzezeit. Forschungsgeschichte, Signifikanz und Beurteilungskriterien.” In Stuttgarter Kolloquium zur historischen Geographie des Altertums 6, 1996, “Naturkatastrophen in der antiken Welt,” edited by Eckart Olshausen and Holger Sonnabend, Geographica Historica, vol. 10. Franz Steiner Verlag. DOI

van Andel, Tjeerd H., Eberhard Zangger, and Constantine Perissoratis. 1990. “Quarternary Transgressive/Regressive Cycles in the Gulf of Argos, Greece.” Quaternary Research 34: 317‒329. DOI

Zangger, Eberhard. 1999. “Strandverschiebungen.” In Mensch und Landschaft in der Antike – Lexikon der historischen Geographie, edited by Holger Sonnabend. Metzler. PDF

Zangger, Eberhard. 1999. “Schwemmland.” In Mensch und Landschaft in der Antike – Lexikon der historischen Geographie, edited by Holger Sonnabend. Metzler. PDF

Zangger, Eberhard. 1999. “Delta.” In Mensch und Landschaft in der Antike – Lexikon der historischen Geographie, edited by Holger Sonnabend. Metzler. PDF

Zangger, Eberhard. 2001. The Future of the Past – Archaeology in the 21st Century. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. PDF

Zangger, Eberhard. 1998. “The Physical Scientist’s Role in Regional Archaeology.” In From Homer’s Sandy Pylos to the Battle of Navarino: An Archaeological Survey, edited by Jack L. Davis. Texas University Press. PDF

Zangger, Eberhard. 1999. “Geoarchäologie.” In Mensch und Landschaft in der Antike – Lexikon der historischen Geographie, edited by Holger Sonnabend. Metzler. PDF

Zangger, Eberhard, and Heinz Malz. 1989. “Late Pleistocene, Holocene, and Recent Ostracodes from the Gulf of Argos, Greece.” Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 113: 159‒175. PDF

Niemi, Tina, and Eberhard A.W. Finke. 1988. “The Application of Remote Sensing to Coastline Reconstructions in the Argive Plain, Greece.” In Archaeology of Coastal Changes, edited by Avner Raban, British Archaeological Reports 404: 119‒136. PDF

Zangger, Eberhard, and Ian N. McCave. 1990. “A Redesigned Kasten-Core Barrel and Sampling Technique.” Marine Geology 64: 165‒171. DOI

Zangger, Eberhard. 2000. “Die Umsetzung des Prinzips Archäologie in einer Ausstellung.” In Der Themenpark der Expo2000, edited by Martin Roth. Springer. PDF

Zangger, Eberhard. 2022. “Urbanism in Prehistoric China as a Driving Force in Technology Hybridization.” International Journal of Archaeology 10 (1): 24–30. DOI

Zangger, Eberhard. 2024. “From Memes to Marx: Social Media as the New Frontier of Ruling Class Dominance.” Harvard University. ProQuest. dissexpress.proquest.com